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Definition of Bum about
1. Verb. Be lazy or idle. "Her son is just bumming around all day"
Generic synonyms: Idle, Laze, Slug, Stagnate
Derivative terms: Loafer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bum About
Literary usage of Bum about
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"re of 40 acres. It is under the same management a the Infirmary. The recent daily
average of patients has bum about 420, at an annual cost of £13000. ..."
2. Little Stories from the Screen by William Addison Lathrop (1917)
"It read, " mrs kendle dopey Louie gang has your husban framed up to croak him
tonite districk attorney in with the play act quick " She asked the bum about ..."
3. Transactions of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland (1898)
"Ibs. of steam, and the furnace bum about 1-6 Ibs. of Cardiff coal per hour per
IHP This would give an engine efficiency of about 16 per cent, and a furnace ..."
4. An International Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility: Exploring a Russian by Glenn E. Schweitzer, A. Chelsea Sharber (2005)
"When 84 such burn subassemblies are installed in the expanded core of a BN-800
reactor using oxide fuel, it is possible to bum about 65 kilograms of ..."
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