BUM


Meaning of BUM in English

n. (informal)

25B6; noun

(N. Amer.) the bums sleeping on the sidewalk. : See tramp noun sense 1.

you lazy bum : IDLER, loafer, good-for-nothing, ne'er-do-well, layabout, lounger, shirker; informal waster, loser, scrounger.

25B6; verb

he bummed around Florida : LOAF, lounge, idle, moon, amble, wander, drift, meander, dawdle; informal mooch; N. Amer. informal lollygag.

they bummed money off him : BEG, borrow; informal scrounge, cadge, sponge; Brit. informal scab; N. Amer. informal mooch; Austral./NZ informal bludge.

25B6; adjective a bum deal : BAD, poor, second-rate, third-rate, second-class, unsatisfactory, inadequate, unacceptable; dreadful, awful, terrible, deplorable, lamentable; informal crummy, rotten, pathetic, lousy, pitiful, dire, poxy; Brit. informal duff, rubbish.

excellent.

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