lump🔊

Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape.

A swelling or nodule of tissue under the skin or in an internal part of the body.

A group, set, or unit.

A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.

A dull or lazy person.

A fat person.

(as plural) A beating or verbal abuse.

A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.

A kind of fish, the lumpsucker.

(slang) Food given to a tramp to be eaten on the road.

(slang) The workhouse.

To treat as a single unit; to group together in a casual or chaotic manner (as if forming an ill-defined lump of the items).

To bear (a heavy or awkward burden); to carry (something unwieldy) from one place to another.

To burden (someone) with an undesired task or responsibility.

(slang) To hit or strike (a person).

To form a lump or lumps.