bust one's hump
English
Verb
bust one's hump
- (Canada, US, slang) To work very hard; to put in strenuous effort.
- 2005, Jacey Eckhart, The Homefront Club
- That poor guy is already busting his hump, learning his job, working sixteen or eighteen hours a day for some fruitloop who throws pens when he gets mad.
- 2005, Jacey Eckhart, The Homefront Club