lump
About 3.75 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun 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.
- noun A swelling or nodule of tissue under the skin or in an internal part of the body.
Lumps in the breasts are an indicator of breast cancer.
- noun A group, set, or unit.
The money arrived all at once as one big lump sum payment.
- noun A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.
Do you want one lump or two with your coffee?
- noun A dull or lazy person.
Don't just sit there like a lump.
- noun A fat person.
- noun A beating or verbal abuse.
He's taken his lumps over the years.
- noun A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
Similar words
clump clod glob puffiness swelling hunk lout stumblebum lubber ball
Often followed by
of sum in on sums together or is and
Word family
lumped lumping lumps
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