Scramble vs Hump - What's the difference?
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(UK) shouted when something desirable is thrown into a group of people who individually want that item.
To move hurriedly to a location, especially by using all limbs against a surface.
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To proceed to a location or an objective in a disorderly manner.
(transitive, of food ingredients, usually, including egg) To thoroughly combine and cook as a loose mass.
To process (telecommunication signals) to make them unintelligible to an unauthorized listener.
(military) To quickly enter (vehicles, usually aircraft) and proceed to a destination in response to an alert, usually to intercept an attacking enemy.
(sports) To partake in motocross.
To ascend rocky terrain as a leisure activity.
To gather or collect by scrambling.
To struggle eagerly with others for something thrown upon the ground; to go down upon all fours to seize something; to catch rudely at what is desired.
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A rush or hurry
(military) An emergency defensive air force mission to intercept attacking enemy aircraft.
A motocross race
Any frantic period of activity.
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A mound of earth.
A rounded mass, especially a fleshy mass such as on a camel.
A speed hump.
(rft-sense) A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine.
(slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
(British, slang) A bad mood.
(slang) A painfully boorish person.
To bend something into a hump.
(slang) To carry something, especially with some exertion.
(slang) To carry, especially with some exertion.
(intransitive) To dry-hump.
(slang) To have sex with.
(slang) To have sex.
Scramble is a related term of hump.
As an interjection scramble
is (uk) shouted when something desirable is thrown into a group of people who individually want that item.As a verb scramble
is to move hurriedly to a location, especially by using all limbs against a surface.As a noun scramble
is a rush or hurry.As a proper noun hump is
the himalayas, as the challenge for the supply route between india and china.scramble
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Interjection
scramble!Verb
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- When I saw the coffin I knew that I was respited, for, as I judged, there was space between it and the wall behind enough to contain my little carcass; and in a second I had put out the candle, scrambled up the shelves, half-stunned my senses with dashing my head against the roof, and squeezed my body betwixt wall and coffin.
- I scrambled some eggs with spinach and cheese.
- to scramble up wealth
- (Marlowe)
- Of other care they little reckoning make, / Than how to scramble at the shearer's feast.
Derived terms
* scrambled eggsNoun
(en noun)Antonyms
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* English ergative verbshump
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Noun
(wikipedia hump) (en noun)- get the hump''', have the '''hump''', take the '''hump .
- That guy is such a hump !