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- noun Plural form of
humpy .
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Examples
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After graduation I spent one more summer knee-deep in humpies and blew everything I earned on a four-month backpacking trip to Europe with Rhonda
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Most of the coho are 3 to 5 pounds, and the humpies are a little bigger.
The Seattle Times 2011
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Eustace pulled up short in breathless dismay, for a few paces away there arose from among these untidy "humpies" some twenty natives -- erect, alert, all with poised boomerangs or spears ready to fling.
Queensland Cousins Eleanor Luisa Haverfield
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There was no concrete in any part of the line, very few iron girders and not many iron "humpies" or "elephant backs" to make the roofs of dugouts.
The Old Front Line John Masefield 1922
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The "humpies" were so plentiful here, however, that they were tossed out on the bank, but not eaten, the bear preferring to capture one while in the water then wade about on his hind legs while he held the fish in his arms and devoured it.
Hunting with the Bow and Arrow Saxton Pope 1900
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As he walked his horse down into the camp, the diggers had just ceased work for the day, and with clay-stained and soddened garments were returning to their various tents or "humpies" of bark, all of them contentedly smoking, and ready for their usual supper of salt beef, damper, and tea.
Tom Gerrard Louis Becke 1884
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It's a win-win situation for all involved, except those spawning "humpies" that are sacrificed for the greater good.
unknown title 2009
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It's a win-win situation for all involved, except those spawning "humpies" that are sacrificed for the greater good.
unknown title 2009
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It's a win-win situation for all involved, except those spawning "humpies" that are sacrificed for the greater good.
unknown title 2009
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My 3 yr old lab Glock and I just got back from our third trip to Ak. We leave the first week of Aug and come back to upstate NY in time for duck season in mid Oct. Two plus months of living together in the pick-up camper and catching silvers on the flyrod, me, catching humpies and chasing around, Glock.
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