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Bum

Bum Meaning & Definition
Bum Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Bum?

[n] the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
[n] person who does no work; "a lazy bum"
[n] a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible; "only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"
[n] a disreputable vagrant; "a homeless tramp"; "he tried to help the really down-and-out bums"
[adj] (informal) of very poor quality
[v] ask for and get free; be a parasite

Synonyms | Synonyms for Bum: arse | ass | backside | behind | bottom | buns | butt | buttocks | cadge | can | cheap | cheesy | chintzy | crumb | crummy | derriere | do-nothing | fanny | fundament | grub | hind end | hindquarters | hobo | idler | inferior | keister | layabout | loafer | lowlife | mooch | nates | posterior | prat | puke | punk | rat | rear | rear end | rotter | rump | scum bag | seat | skunk | sleazy | so-and-so | sponge | stern | stinker | stinkpot | tail | tail end | tinny | tooshie | tramp | tush

Related Terms | Find terms related to Bum: amiss | Arab | arse | ass | backside | bad | barfy | bat around | beach bum | beachcomber | beg | beggar | beggarly fellow | bender | birr | blighter | bo | bombilate | bombinate | boom | booze | boozehound | bottle sucker | bottom | Bowery bum | brannigan | budmash | bumble | bummer | burr | bust | butt | buzz | cadge | cadger | caitiff | can | carouse | cheeks | cheesy | count ties | crappy | creepy | crummy | derelict | derriere | devil | dirty | dissatisfactory | divagate | dogie | dolittle | do-nothing | drift | drifter | drone | drunk | drunkard | elbow bender | faineant | fanny | flit | floater | gad | gad about | gallivant | gamin | gamine | ginhound | go about | go the rounds | godawful | goldbrick | good-for-naught | good-for-nothing | goof off | goshawful | grim | guttersnipe | hairy | hind end | hit | hit the road | hit the trail | hit up | hobo | homeless waif | hooch hound | hum | human wreck | icky | idler | jag | jaunt | keister | knock about | knock around | landloper | laze | lazy | lazybones | lazzarone | loaf | loafer | loiter | loll | losel | lounge | lowlife | lush | lusher | mauvais sujet | mean wretch | meander | mendicant | mendicant friar | mendicant order | mooch | moocher | mucker | mudlark | no-good | nomadize | panhandle | panhandler | pass the hat | pauvre diable | peregrinate | pererrate | piker | pilgarlic | poor | poor creature | poor devil | posterior | prat | prowl | punk | purr | putrid | ragamuffin | ragman | ragpicker | ramble | range | roam | rotten | rounder | rove | rum hound | rummy | rump | run about | rusty-dusty | sad case | sad sack | saunter | schnorrer | scrounge | scrounger | shitty | ski bum | skid-row bum | slouch | slug | slugabed | soak | souse | sponge | stern | stew | stiff | stinking | stinky | straggle | stray | street Arab | street urchin | stroll | strum | sundowner | surf bum | swagman | swagsman | swillbelly | swillbowl | swillpot | tail | tatterdemalion | tennis bum | thrum | touch | traipse | tramp | truant | tuchis | turnpiker | tush | tushy | unsatisfactory | up | urchin | vag | vagabond | vagabondize | vagrant | vaurien | vomity | waif | waifs and strays | walk the tracks | wander | wassail | wastrel | wayfare | whir | whiz | wino | worthless fellow | wretch | wrong | yecchy

See Also | body | body part | clock watcher | couch potato | dallier | dawdler | daydreamer | dillydallier | disagreeable person | dosser | drifter | drone | floater | freeload | goldbrick | good-for-naught | good-for-nothing | goof-off | laggard | lagger | lazybones | lie-abed | loon | lounger | mope | ne'er-do-well | nonworker | obtain | shirker | slacker | slug | slugabed | sluggard | spiv | street person | sunbather | torso | trailer | trifler | trunk | unpleasant person | vagrant | whittler | woolgatherer

Bum In Webster's Dictionary

\Bum\, n. [Contr. fr. bottom in this sense.] The buttock. [Low] --Shak.
\Bum\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bummed}; p. pr. & vb.n. {Bumming} (?).] [See {Boom}, v. i., to roar.] To make murmuring or humming sound. --Jamieson.
\Bum\, n. A humming noise. --Halliwell.

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