hump day

noun

variants or less commonly Hump Day
chiefly US, informal
: Wednesday regarded as the middle point of the workweek
Hump day is past and it's time to start thinking about the sunny weekend ahead of us, Nashville!Tabitha Waggoner

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That's it for this hump day and my first of two relief appearances. Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 10 June 2026 The gecko, the caveman, the camel who celebrated hump day—all these were marketing masterstrokes, ones directly derived from Buffett’s deep understanding of the mass-brand/mass-media industrial complex. Adam Seessel, Fortune, 30 Dec. 2025 Good morning, happy hump day and welcome to the A.M. Nicole Nixon, Sacbee.com, 4 June 2025 On Wednesday, Hopkins, 84, celebrated the week's hump day — and the popular Netflix series Wednesday — by marking up his right hand to match the scars of the Addams Family's Thing to perform an impression of the character. Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 22 Dec. 2022 The heat will continue beyond hump day. The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 15 Aug. 2022 Happy hump day, OnPolitics friends! Mabinty Quarshie, USA TODAY, 14 July 2021 In exciting hump day news, Katie Holmes, Emilio Vitolo Jr., and his father Emilio Vitolo Sr. were spotted eating outdoors at Emilio's Ballato in SoHo yesterday. Bianca Rodriguez, Marie Claire, 11 Nov. 2020

Word History

First Known Use

1959, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of hump day was in 1959

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“Hump day.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hump%20day. Accessed 20 Jun. 2026.

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