lumps

Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape.

“Stir the gravy until there are no more lumps.”

A group, set, or unit.

“The money arrived all at once as one big lump sum payment.”

A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.

“Do you want one lump or two with your coffee?”

A dull or lazy person.

“Don't just sit there like a lump.”

(as plural) A beating or verbal abuse.

“He's taken his lumps over the years.”

A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.

A kind of fish, the lumpsucker.

Food given to a tramp to be eaten on the road.

A beating or verbal abuse.

“He's taken his lumps over the years.”