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The problem is getting over the disgust hump, because people don’t realize they’ll cease to be disgusted once they get used to something.

They were about how animals got their famous features, like the camel’s hump and the leopard’s spots.

The vehicles will have longer wheelbases with shorter overhangs, which means the steering wheel and pedals can come forward, and there’s no hump down the center of the cabin to accommodate the drivetrain.

If Democrats can get lower-propensity voters in the Rio Grande Valley and the big metro areas to turn out, I’m convinced we’d get over the hump.

It’s no longer Wednesday, but you should still check out our OZY hump day playlist.

From Ozy

Diplomatic dispatches at the time, written by men who had no reason to lie to their own rulers, reported no hump or withered arm.

Also 2004: John Kerry kept it close but never got over the hump.

Despite 20 years of cycling between expectation and disappointment, I hump along with that aim in mind.

In the former Bill Hurt longed to hump you and in the latter a large dog did just that in your role as an animal trainer.

Of course, not even a new Contract With America may be enough to help Republicans over the hump in 2010.

She wore an old poke bonnet and carried a crooked stick, and there seemed to be a hump upon her back.

The hump-backed little figure with poke-bonnet and cane was chased out upon the broken landing.

The cloak and the hump under it were likewise torn off and went sailing away on the current.

Now, said the hump-backed man, who had watched him keenly, what do you mean by coming into my house in this violent way?

Hump, stay and take this wolfeOut of my brest, that thou hast lodgd there, orFor euer lose mee.

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On this page you'll find 51 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hump, such as: bulge, bump, convexity, dune, elevation, and eminence.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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