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Bum

noun
1.
A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible.  Synonyms: crumb, dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot.  "Kill the rat" , "Throw the bum out" , "You cowardly little pukes!" , "The British call a contemptible person a 'git'"
2.
A disreputable vagrant.  Synonyms: hobo, tramp.  "He tried to help the really down-and-out bums"
3.
Person who does no work.  Synonyms: do-nothing, idler, layabout, loafer.
4.
The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.  Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush.  "Are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"
verb
(past & past part. bummed; pres. part. bumming)
1.
Ask for and get free; be a parasite.  Synonyms: cadge, grub, mooch, sponge.
2.
Be lazy or idle.  Synonyms: arse about, arse around, bum about, bum around, frig around, fuck off, loaf, loll, loll around, lounge about, lounge around, waste one's time.
adjective
1.
Of very poor quality; flimsy.  Synonyms: cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny.



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"Bum" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Why, that no good bum!" the old man shouted at me. "That no-good from nowhere! I'll fix him! Thinks he's something, does he? I'll show him! Anything he can do I ...
— Sense from Thought Divide • Mark Irvin Clifton
... putting much eloquence Into the monosyllable. "That's a bum monniker out of a French love story. It's the Roosian princess. It's Helga, that's who ...
— The Short Cut • Jackson Gregory
... have had attacks of fever and ague; Wadrokala and his child of a wife, Bum, a Bauro boy, &c. The island is not at all unhealthy, but natives cannot be taught caution. I, thank God, am in robust health, very weather-beaten. I think my Bishop's dress would look quite out of keeping with such a face and ...
— Life of John Coleridge Patteson • Charlotte M. Yonge
... o'clock in the morning, she seems to drift off into a peaceful slumber, but awakens on the moment and hurrying all the way up to the other end of Main Street she slams the bass keys a couple of hard blows—bumetty-bum! And so it goes for quite a long spell after that: Tippy-tap!—off to the country for a week-end party, Friday to Monday; bumetty-bum!—six months elapse between the third and fourth acts; tippetty-tip!—two years later; dear me, how the old place has ...
— Cobb's Bill-of-Fare • Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb
... Roberts," Kelly broke the hostile silence. "He ought to be here. I've sent for him. Sit down and wait, though f rom the looks of you, you haven't got a chance. I can't throw the public down with a bum fight. Ringside seats are selling at fifteen ...
— The Night-Born • Jack London


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