was humping

• past progressive

  past progressive

  Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.

  of hump.
  hump

  noun

  a rounded protuberance, especially a fleshy protuberance on the back, as that due to abnormal curvature of the spine in humans, or that normally present in certain animals, as the camel or bison.

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was humping

The one thing anyone could be sure of was that the U. S. was humping dizzily up that first clanking climb of the roller coaster on the way to a screaming whoosh beyond.

From Time Magazine Archive

I chuckled and let Nell come down to a trot, thinking, of course, Twigg had kept the right-hand road and was humping it away toward Evan's Mills.

From The New Boy at Hilltop by Ralph Henry Barbour

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