hump it

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Verb

hump it (third-person singular simple present humps it, present participle humping it, simple past and past participle humped it)

1. (slang) To depart in a hurry; to flee.
   • C. L. Money

     Having collected a sufficient quantity, we humped it out of the bush.

   • McClure's Magazine

     A half dozen other negroes, some limping and all scared, were humping it across a meadow.