Definition of "lump"

lump

/lʌmp/

noun
plural lumps
1. Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape.
2. A swelling or nodule of tissue under the skin or in an internal part of the body.
3. A group, set, or unit.
4. A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.
5. A dull or lazy person.
  Quotations
  "Thou great Norman lump!" he muttered. "If I conjure till Doomsday, I cannot make thee gold."
  1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 7
6. A fat person.
7. (informal, as plural) A beating or verbal abuse.
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  Komer admitted that the United States would probably suffer "short term lumps" as a result of Johnson's brusque decision.
  1994, Robert J. McMahon, The cold war on the periphery: the United States, India, and Pakistan, page 323
8. A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
9. A kind of fish, the lumpsucker.
  Quotations
  You roast him [the fish] […] just like a lump.
  1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard
10. (obsolete, slang) Food given to a tramp to be eaten on the road.
  Quotations
  “A lump,” explained The Whimperer […] “is wot a kin’ lady slips youse w’en youse batter de back door. If she invites youse in and lets youse t’row yer feet unner de table, it’s a set-down. If she slips youse a lunch in a poiper bag, it’s a lump. See? […] ”
  1923, Arthur Preston Hankins, chapter 12, in Cole of Spyglass Mountain‎, New York: Grosset & Dunlap
verb
third-person singular simple present lumps, present participle lumping, simple past and past participle lumped
1. (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).
  Quotations
  Pellegrini’s decision to operate with both Edin Dzeko and Agüero in attack certainly looks misjudged bearing in mind that the first way to stop Barcelona is usually to try to crowd midfield and restrict space. Yet it would be wrong to lump all the blame on the manager’s tactics.
  2015 February 24, Daniel Taylor, “Luis Suárez strikes twice as Barcelona teach Manchester City a lesson”, in The Guardian (London)‎
2. (transitive) To bear (a heavy or awkward burden); to carry (something unwieldy) from one place to another.
  Quotations
  Well, a male body was brought to a certain surgeon by a man he had often employed, and the pair lumped it down on the dissecting table, and then the vendor received his money and went.
  1876, Belgravia, volume 30, page 131
  I never ceased to be amazed at his prowess at being able to lump two-hundredweight sacks of coal, which seemed as big as he was, up perhaps four flights of narrow stairs
  1999, Alf Goldberg, World's End for Sir Oswald: Portraits of Working-class Life in Pre-war London, Book Guild
3. (transitive) To burden (someone) with an undesired task or responsibility.
  Quotations
  The Luftwaffe, at this point, was still refusing to play ball completely, however. But someone decided to lump Adolf Galland with command of the air operation, and he decided to work with Luftflotte 3, mobilizing their training units to make up the numbers, since large numbers of that particular formation's fighters had been diverted to the campaign in Russia, which was why the fighter numbers were so much lower than they had been the previous year.
  2019 January 9, Drachinifel, 15:17 from the start, in The Channel Dash / Operation Cerberus - How to win through refuge in audacity‎, archived from the original on 24 July 2022
4. (transitive, slang) To hit or strike (a person).
  Quotations
  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
5. (intransitive) To form a lump or lumps.
  Quotations
  Thin the paint with mineral spirits for a medium consistency so that it will not drip or lump.
  2004, Creative Gifts: Quick & Easy Projects, page 44

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