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PUMPS

5 letters

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Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

PUMPS is a valid 5-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 2 in Classic, 2 in Big, and 2 in Super Big Boggle.

PUMPS root PUMP-s

Word family

PUMP 1 PUMPING-ing 5 PUMPED-ed 3
noun
  1. A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas.
    • This pump can deliver 100 gallons of water per minute.
  2. An instance of the action of a pump; one stroke of a pump; any action similar to pumping.
    • It takes thirty pumps to get 10 litres; he did 50 pumps of the weights.
  3. A device for dispensing liquid or gas to be sold, particularly fuel; a gas pump.
    • This pump is out of order, but you can gas up at the next one.
  4. A swelling of the muscles caused by increased blood flow following high intensity weightlifting.
  5. colloquialA ride on a bicycle given to a passenger, usually on the handlebars or fender.
    • She gave the other girl a pump on her new bike.
  6. USslangThe heart.
  7. UKobsoleteslangvulgarThe vagina.
  8. UKA low-top shoe with a rubber sole and a canvas upper; a low-top canvas sneaker.
  9. CanadaUSA type of women's shoe which leaves the instep uncovered and has a relatively high heel, especially a stiletto (with a very high and thin heel)
    • She was wearing a lovely new pair of pumps.
  10. A dancing shoe.
  11. A type of shoe without a heel.
verb
  1. intransitivetransitiveTo use a pump; to move (water or other liquid) by means of a pump.
    • I've been pumping for over a minute but the water isn't coming through.
    • I've pumped over 1000 gallons of water in the last ten minutes.
  2. transitiveTo inject or pour (something) into someone or something in a manner similar to a pump.
  3. obsoleteTo put (a person or part of the body) under a stream of water from a pump, as a punishment or as a form of medical treatment; to force a pump of water upon or on someone.
  4. transitiveTo gain something, especially information, from (a person) by persistent questioning.
  5. UKslangtransitiveTo have sex with; to sexually penetrate, especially with a thrusting motion.
  6. intransitivetransitiveTo express milk from (a breast) by means of a breast pump.
  7. oftentransitiveTo fill with air by means of a pump; to inflate.
    • He pumped up the air-bed by hand, but used the service station air to pump up the tyres.
  8. transitiveTo move rhythmically, as the motion of a pump.
    • I pumped my fist with joy when I won the race.
  9. To enlarge the body by means of weightlifting or steroid use.
  10. transitiveTo shake (a person's hand) vigorously.
  11. USintransitiveslangOf music: to be loud, to have strong bass and rhythms; (by extension) to be full of energy.
    • The waves were really pumping this morning.
    • Last night's party was really pumping.
  12. To kick, throw, or hit the ball far and high.
  13. UKslangvulgarTo pass gas; to fart quietly.
  14. To pass (messages) into a program so that it can obey them.
  15. colloquialTo inject silicone into the body in order to try to achieve a fuller or curvier look.
  16. To fire a bullet from a firearm.
  17. To load a shell into the chamber of a pump-action shotgun by pumping the mechanism.
    • He ran on, pumping another round up into his scattergun.