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Meaning bum meaning

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Definitions in simple English

bum

A bum is someone who is usually homeless and poor. buttocks.

bum

(= rotter, rat, puke, git) 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! the British call a contemptible person a 'git' (= mooch) ask for and get free; be a parasite (= tramp) a disreputable vagrant a homeless tramp he tried to help the really down-and-out bums of very poor quality; flimsy (= bum around) be lazy or idle Her son is just bumming around all day person who does no work a lazy bum (= butt, fanny) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on he deserves a good kick in the butt are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?

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Conjugation bum conjugation

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bum · verb

Examples bum examples

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Simple sentences

A bum is someone who doesn't pretend to work.
Can I bum a smoke?
Can I bum a fag?
I saw a bum at the train station.
Get back to work, you lazy bum!
Of course you can trust me. Have I ever given you a bum steer before?
That movie was bum numbing.

Movie subtitles

Well, growing up, I always thought I'd be a pro football player, but I got a bum knee, so went into the family business. real estate.
Let's get away from this. bum.
Business is on the bum.
We're laying down good beer and getting nothing but a lot of bum paper.
Afterwards, just a bum.
Bum ticker, kidneys on the blink.
Bum steer, Mr. Spade?
No, no. lt was a bum steer.
You're not really a bum, are you?
All this talk. because I don't want to be a bum anymore.
A bum?
You'e a bum!
If I haven't got anything and don't want anything, I'm a bum.
And I won't be obliged to feed a bum.
She'll die in the street if she counts on you, lazy bum!
A lazy bum.
The bum's rush in melody, dear.
Soon as the harvest is in you're a migrant worker. Afterwards, just a bum.
No, no. It was a bum steer. Are you sure that was her voice?
Bum Bums.
I can out-jive the rest of those hepcats even with a bum gam.
Somebody's been giving you a bum steer.
We'll bum our way.
Yet you'd let that penniless bum live here.
That bum's got it too easy.
Well, soon as the harvest is in, you're a migrant worker. Afterwards, just a bum.
Do you ever go on the bum?
You could be a swell bum.
To be a bum, you got to have willpower.
He could be a swell bum if he only had the willpower.
It was a bum steer.
Indeed, the Sultan wrote us that he had cut of the head of this bum.
But I'm not in your business, see? If I haven't got anything and don't want anything, I'm a bum.
They're seeing a couple of bum features.

News and current affairs

Yesterday's unemployed chess bum can bring in a six-figure income if he or she is willing to take on enough work.