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Definition of Bum
1. Adjective. Of very poor quality; flimsy.
Language type: Colloquialism
Similar to: Inferior
Derivative terms: Cheapness, Sleaze, Sleaziness
2. Verb. Ask for and get free; be a parasite.
Generic synonyms: Obtain
Specialized synonyms: Freeload
Derivative terms: Cadger, Moocher, Sponge, Sponger
3. Noun. A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible. "The British call a contemptible person a `git'"
Generic synonyms: Disagreeable Person, Unpleasant Person
Derivative terms: Rat
4. Verb. Be lazy or idle. "Her son is just bumming around all day"
Generic synonyms: Idle, Laze, Slug, Stagnate
Derivative terms: Loafer
5. Noun. A disreputable vagrant. "He tried to help the really down-and-out bums"
Specialized synonyms: Dosser, Street Person
Generic synonyms: Drifter, Floater, Vagabond, Vagrant
6. Noun. Person who does no work. "A lazy bum"
Generic synonyms: Nonworker
Specialized synonyms: Clock Watcher, Couch Potato, Dallier, Dilly-dallier, Dillydallier, Lounger, Mope, Dawdler, Drone, Laggard, Lagger, Poke, Trailer, Daydreamer, Woolgatherer, Goldbrick, Good-for-naught, Good-for-nothing, Goof-off, Ne'er-do-well, No-account, Lazybones, Lie-abed, Slugabed, Loon, Shirker, Slacker, Slug, Sluggard, Spiv, Sunbather, Trifler, Whittler
Derivative terms: Do-nothing, Idle, Loaf
7. Noun. The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on. "Are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"
Generic synonyms: Body Part
Group relationships: Body, Torso, Trunk
Derivative terms: Posterior
Definition of Bum
1. n. The buttock.
2. v. i. To make murmuring or humming sound.
3. n. A humming noise.
Definition of Bum
1. Noun. The buttocks ¹
2. Noun. (UK Irish Aust New Zealand informal) (rare Canada US) The anus ¹
3. Noun. (context: by metonymy informal) A person ¹
4. Verb. (UK transitive colloquial) to sodomize; to engage in anal sex ¹
5. Noun. (North America colloquial) A hobo; a homeless person, usually a man ¹
6. Noun. (North America Australia colloquial) A lazy, incompetent, or annoying person, usually a man ¹
7. Noun. (North America Australia colloquial sports) A player, usually a man, who often or usually plays poorly ¹
8. Noun. (colloquial) A drinking spree. ¹
9. Verb. (transitive colloquial) To ask someone to give one (something) for free; to beg for something ¹
10. Verb. (intransitive colloquial) To behave like a hobo or vagabond; to loiter ¹
11. Verb. (transitive slang British) To wet the end of a marijuana cigarette (spliff) ¹
12. Adjective. Of poor quality or highly undesirable. ¹
13. Adjective. Unfair. ¹
14. Adjective. Injured and without the possibility of full repair, defective. ¹
15. Adjective. Unpleasant. ¹
16. Verb. to depress; to make unhappy ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bum
1. of little value; worthless [adj BUMMER, BUMMEST] / to live idly [v BUMMED, BUMMING, BUMS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bum
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