| lump | (noun) a compact mass | Synonyms: ball, chunk, clod, clump, glob |
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| (noun) a large piece of something without definite shape | Synonyms: hunk |
| (noun) an awkward stupid person | Synonyms: clod, gawk, goon, lout, lubber, lummox, oaf, stumblebum |
| (noun) an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement | Synonyms: puffiness, swelling |
| (verb) group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side | Synonyms: chunk, collocate |
| (verb) put together indiscriminately | Synonyms: chunk |
| lumpectomy | (noun) surgical removal of a tumor without removing much of the surrounding tissue or lymph nodes; performed in some cases of breast cancer | - |
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| lumpen | (adjective) mentally sluggish | Synonyms: lumpish, unthinking |
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| lumpenproletariat | (noun) (Marxism) the unorganized lower levels of the proletariat who are not interested in revolutionary advancement | - |
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| lumper | (noun) a taxonomist who classifies organisms into large groups on the basis of major characteristics | - |
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| (noun) a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port | Synonyms: dock-walloper, dock worker, docker, dockhand, dockworker, loader, longshoreman, stevedore |
| lumpfish | (noun) clumsy soft thick-bodied northern Atlantic fish with pelvic fins fused into a sucker; edible roe used for caviar | Synonyms: Cyclopterus lumpus |
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| lumpiness | (noun) The property of being full of lumps, not being smooth. | - |
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| lumpish | (adjective) mentally sluggish | Synonyms: lumpen, unthinking |
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| lumpsucker | (noun) any of several very small lumpfishes | - |
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| lumpy | (adjective) having lumps; not smooth and even in texture | - |
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| (adjective) like or containing small sticky lumps | Synonyms: chunky |