bum

bum1 [ bʌm ] noun count INFORMAL

1. ) AMERICAN someone without a job or place to live who asks people for money in the street

2. ) AMERICAN a lazy person

3. ) someone who spends all their time doing an activity or being in a place they enjoy:

a beach/surf bum

4. ) BRITISH the part of your body you sit on: BOTTOM

bum

bum 2 [ bʌm ] verb transitive

INFORMAL to ask someone to give you something such as a cigarette, drink, or money without giving them anything in return:

I managed to bum the train fare off my dad.

,bum a`round phrasal verb INFORMAL

1. ) intransitive to spend time relaxing and doing nothing:

It's nice to have a day off to just bum around.

2. ) intransitive or transitive bum around something to spend time traveling around a place without having any particular plans about where you will go next

,bum `out phrasal verb transitive AMERICAN INFORMAL

to annoy someone or make them disappointed:

All this rain is really bumming me out.

bum

bum 3 [ bʌm ] adjective only before noun INFORMAL

1. ) bad or unfair:

I think we got a bum deal.

2. ) AMERICAN used for describing a body part that does not work correctly:

a bum knee/leg/wrist

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