lump

/lʌmp/

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.