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the midpoint of anything hard, right before it stops being hard.
means a rounded bulge, or the toughest middle stretch of an effort you're already committed to finishing.
from old english/germanic root for a lump or swelling, later borrowed by camels, then by wednesdays.
camel storagehumps hold fat, not water.
work slanghump day peaked mid-20th-century office culture.
verb shiftalso slang for both sex and struggle, oddly.