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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

bust one's hump en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (Canada, US, slang) To work very hard; to put in strenuous effort.
    • That poor guy is already busting his hump, learning his job, working sixteen or eighteen hours a day for some fruitloop who throws pens when he gets mad. 2005, Jacey Eckhart, The Homefront Club:

Forms

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busting one's hump Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
bust one's hump Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
bust one's hump Tense=Past lexicographic
busted one's hump Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
busted one's hump Tense=Past lexicographic
busts one's hump Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic