lump
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /lʌmp/
lump (plural lumps)
- Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape.
- Stir the gravy until there are no more lumps.
- a lump of coal; a lump of clay; a lump of cheese
- A group, set, or unit.
- The money arrived all at once as one big lump sum payment.
- A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.
- Do you want one lump or two with your coffee?
- A dull or lazy person.
- Don't just sit there like a lump.
- (informal, as plural) A beating or verbal abuse.
- He's taken his lumps over the years.
- A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
- A kind of fish, the lumpsucker.
- French: masse, tas, protubérance, renflement, bosse, motte
- German: Klumpen, Kloß
- Italian: gonfiore, gnocco
- Portuguese: pelota, saliência
- Russian: вы́ступ
- Spanish: cúmulo, prominencia, cordillera (de montañas), mazacote, mota, recrescencia, grumo
- French: lot, paquet, forfait
- Spanish: cúmulo, agrupación, acumulación, amontonamiento
- French: morceau
- German: Stück (Würfelzucker)
- Italian: cucchiaino, zolla, zolletta, forfait
- Portuguese: torrão
- Spanish: terrón
lump (lumps, present participle lumping; past and past participle lumped)
- (transitive) 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).
- People tend to lump turtles and tortoises together, when in fact they are different creatures.
- (transitive) To bear a heavy or awkward burden; to carry something unwieldy from one place to another.
- (transitive, slang) To hit or strike (a person).
- 1962, Floyd Patterson, Victory Over Myself (page 63)
- If that's the only way you can fight, then you'd better be prepared to get lumped.
- 1962, Floyd Patterson, Victory Over Myself (page 63)
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