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[luhmp]

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noun

a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape: a lump of coal.

a protuberance or swelling: a blow that raised a lump on his head.

an aggregation, collection, or mass; clump: All the articles were piled in a great lump.

Also called lump of sugar. a small block of granulated sugar, designed for sweetening hot coffee, tea, etc.: How many lumps do you take in your coffee?

majority; plurality; multitude: The great lump of voters are still undecided.

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lumps, Informal. harsh criticism, punishment, or defeat: The new theory came in for some lumps when other scholars heard of it.

Informal. a heavy, clumsy, and usually stupid person.

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adjective

in the form of a lump or lumps: lump sugar.

made up of a number of items taken together; not separated or considered separately: The debts were paid in one lump sum.

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verb (used with object)

10.

to unite into one aggregation, collection, or mass (often followed by together): We lumped the reds and blues together.

11.

to deal with, handle, consider, etc., in the lump or mass: to lump unrelated matters indiscriminately.

12.

to make into a lump or lumps: to lump dough before shaping it into loaves.

13.

to raise into or cover with lumps: a plow lumping the moist earth.

verb (used without object)

14.

to form or raise a lump or lumps: Stir the gravy so that it doesn't lump.

15.

to move heavily and awkwardly: The big oaf lumped along beside me.

Idiom

16.

get/take one's lumps, to receive or endure hardship, punishment, criticism, etc.: Without its star pitcher, the baseball team will get its lumps today.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English lumpe, lomp(e); cognate with early Dutch lompe piece, Danish lump(e) lump, dialectal Norwegian lump block

Related forms

lump·ing·ly, adverb

Example Sentences

If a biopsy shows that the lump is a fibroadenoma, the lump may be left in place or removed.

When used in the design of buildings or spaces, this unit lets us lump all power sources together.

They prefer having a lump sum to an inflation-linked income.

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If a biopsy shows that the lump is a fibroadenoma, the lump may be left in place or removed.

When used in the design of buildings or spaces, this unit lets us lump all power sources together.

They prefer having a lump sum to an inflation-linked income.

In the bowl, mix the flour and water and stir until the mixture is creamy and lump free.

It is also incorrect to lump psychedelics together with cannabis.

Someone had given me a small lump of irregularly-shaped rock and said it was a dinosaur bone.

In a typical cancer operation, the surgeon excises a lump of flesh that is suspected to be malignant.

But any testicle lump should be evaluated by your doctor, whether or not there is pain.

It is wrong to lump all for-profit schools into the bad-apple group that give us all a bad name.

It is easy to lump all nuclear weapons together, and to dismiss them as equally dangerous.

Then the wolf went away to a shopkeeper and bought himself a great lump of chalk, ate this and made his voice soft with it.

Science, however, has nothing to do with putting a value on a lump of gold any more than it does on a lump of lead.

Maiden serves his corn bread with a quickly vanishing lump of butter sweetened with sorghum syrup.

Using lump charcoal is the best way to go to get a good sear and crust on the meat.

Moreover, taxes would take a big bite if you took a lump sum from a retirement plan.

If you have information--not cites exactly--that need to go in footnotes, you can lump them into the same note.

People dealing in bonds and specialised derivatives products argue that it is wrong to lump them in with the trading of equities.

He sees that land as a gold ingot that the government has turned into a lump of lead.

But ultimately, no matter what you receive, it's likely there's a lump of coal somewhere behind it.

Revelation lifted its head but otherwise remained as inert as a lump of clay.

The camera hound of the future wears on his forehead a lump a little larger than a walnut.

The main symptom is usually a small, non-painful lump beneath the skin.

If it bothers you that you cannot understand what someone is saying, learn that language or lump it.

Lump of labor is more truth than fallacy when it comes to demographics.

He put a small lump of petrified bone, no longer than a lug nut, into my hand.

Phobos is a misshapen lump that may be a captured asteroid.

So get those bones, rocks and that lump you found under your bed last week and head to the museum to find out what they are.

Within a few weeks, a hard lump may develop where the bone is healing.

There are valid reasons to oppose increasing the retirement age, but the lump of labor fallacy is not one of them.

There's a trail bar and a cup of tea for everyone, one lump of sugar in each cup, except mine.

These one pagers pick and choose information and then lump them together to make blanket statements.

If the client insists, however, you may have to lump it.

The outcome of the lumpectomy depends on the type of lump found.

We can't wait for the general public to watch your bullsh--- and lump us together with you.

Please let us not lump together farmers trying to survive in today's economy with corporate agriculture ventures.

Lump unlimited text messaging into the unlimited data plan, and you have a less expensive smartphone package.

When you lump things in little boxes, you end up in a little box yourself.

There were translucent sticks of phosphorus in water, and a fist-sized lump of iridium.

Well a news flash for all of you who lump believers into the same basket.

Most women have some lumps, so don't be concerned about figuring out what a lump or abnormal area.

It would thus be incorrect to lump them with the actual diploma mills, which are non-accredited outfits that.

It has toughened the citizenship test and doubled the lump sum required to gain quick access as an investor.

New findings suggest that a lump of clay could have provided a platform for the formation of primordial cells.

Unlike the rest of our sensory organs, which are exquisitely sensitive, that lump of exposed muscle sitting in.

Administrators lump everyone together in three pools.

Try their jumbo lump crab cakes, collards with smoked sausage, and heavenly key lime pie.

He extracts a yellowish brown lump the size of a golf ball and sniffs.

Hump behind the shoulders is a lump of fat on the back of the neck.

Their needs are so specific and colleges continue to try and lump them.

When it was a torn lump of flesh they tossed it to their dogs.

What if every gallon of gas in our cars and lump of.

Trying to lump causes of rudeness into a simple set of rules is childish at best.

Even better, add a lump of sugar or have a carbohydrate-rich snack at the same time for an extra cognitive kick.

Astronomers announced today that they had found a lump of rock and ice that is larger.

She feels perfectly well, she has no evidence of a lump or other changes in the breast and she experiences no discomfort.

Please don't lump the innocent nosh in with your other perceived symbols of cosmopolitan snobbery.

Critical-illness insurance typically pays out a lump sum if the insured finds himself at death's door.

Then one that was greeting the pups regurgitated and a big lump of flesh erupted from his mouth.

Atlantis' boneshaking launch actually damn near put a lump in my throat.

After a while, the leg went down but he could feel this lump moving around the leg.

To lump all complementary cancer treatments into the same category and pronounce them useless is simple-minded.

The lump continues to grow, eventually becoming a full-sized arm.

And that lump sum will have grown because yields will have fallen.

That's not how it works, because a lump sum is paid for access to the whole site.

Astronomers announced yesterday that they had found a lump of rock and ice that was.

Like it or lump it" probably is an operational definition of uncivilized discourse.

Or it can lead to nasty attempts to steal bits of lump from other countries.

You're stuck, you're looking at the string and the lump of clay, and you've got a match.

In return, you'd receive a lump sum of cash equivalent to the amount of coverage you had purchased.

At retirement a bonus of around three times the final annual salary is paid in a lump sum.

Here eager machinery seizes the huge lump of dough.

There was no lump sum payment for those who perished.

The panic comes in part from a rush to lump all the blame on globalisation.

By chance, her doctor noticed a lump under her arm.

Once the buyout is complete, then they'll sell it to a foreign country for a lump sum.

When a breast lump is found to contain cancer, and if the.

It conjures the image of a cyclist pushing or carrying his duff lump of transport instead of riding it.

Each odd excrescence, every random lump in the visual texture seems suspicious”.

Particularly fortunate are parents with lump sums to invest.

To lump these economies together is to hid the risks and overstate the rewards inherent in each.

Oddly shaped battery bar makes for a strange lump in your bag.

Testicle biopsy may also be done if you have found a lump during testicular self-examination.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

verb (used with object) Informal.

to put up with; resign oneself to; accept and endure: If you don't like it, you can lump it.

Origin:
1785–95; Americanism; perhaps identical with British dialect lump to look sullen, of expressive orig.

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World English Dictionary

lump¹ (lʌmp)

—n
1.	a small solid mass without definite shape
2.	pathol any small swelling or tumour
3.	a collection of things; aggregate
4.	informal an awkward, heavy, or stupid person
5.	informal (US) (plural) punishment, defeat, or reverses: he took his lumps
6.	(Brit) the lump
	a. self-employed workers in the building trade considered collectively, esp with reference to tax and national insurance evasion
	b. (as modifier): lump labour
7.	(modifier) in the form of a lump or lumps: lump sugar
8.	a lump in one's throat a tight dry feeling in one's throat, usually caused by great emotion

—vb (often foll by together) (often foll by along)
9.	to collect into a mass or group
10.	(intr) to grow into lumps or become lumpy
11.	(tr) to consider as a single group, often without justification
12.	(tr) to make or cause lumps in or on
13.	to move or proceed in a heavy manner

[C13: probably related to early Dutch lompe piece, Scandinavian dialect lump block, Middle High German lumpe rag]

lump² (lʌmp)

—vb
	informal (tr) to tolerate or put up with; endure (in the phrase lump it)

[C16: origin uncertain]

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Word Origin & History

lump

c.1300, lumpe, perhaps from a Scandinavian source (cf. cognate Dan. lumpe, 16c.), of unknown origin. Phrase lump in (one's) throat "feeling of tightness brought on by emotion" is from 1803. Lumps "hard knocks, a beating" is colloquial, from 1935. Lump sum, one covering a number of items, is from 1867.

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lump

"endure" (now usually in contrast to like), 1791, apparently an extended sense from an older meaning "to look sulky, dislike" (1577), of unknown origin, perhaps a symbolic sound (cf. grump, harumph, etc.).

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Slang Dictionary

lump definition

n.
a stupid clod of a person. : I am not a lump! I am just sedate and pensive.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Idioms & Phrases

lump

In addition to the idiom beginning with lump, also see like it or lump it.