I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bum bag
bums on seats British English informal (= used for saying that something or someone can attract a large audience )
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He is an actor who will put bums on seats.
gets a bum rap
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Cleveland always gets a bum rap in the press.
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■ NOUN
beach
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Parke Puterbaugh and Alan Bisbort are beach bums and proud of it.
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You envision a California beach bum .
■ VERB
get
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Oh yes, they're very good at theory but no bloody good at getting off their bums and looking for themselves!
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But I got the bum who led them.
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With a face like mine I never get my bum pinched or felt!
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So far the film, which is bound to get a few bums on seats for that scene alone, is untitled.
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He's got a great bum .
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Chocolat has been nominated for five Oscars, so it's bound to get a lot of bums on seats.
put
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When you can put bums on seats, then you can come and tell me what flights you want to travel on.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bum/bad rap
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She said social programs of the 1960s have gotten a bad rap in the 1990s.
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They got me on a bum rap .
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Yalta's bad name was in some ways a bum rap .
a bummer
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A couple of bums were passing a bottle in a doorway.
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She's always complaining about her husband, but she won't throw the bum out.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I thought the members had been waiting, just waiting, for the chance to throw the bums out.
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Parke Puterbaugh and Alan Bisbort are beach bums and proud of it.
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Quigley peered down at its bum .
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The same bums in the same pound seats.
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Throw out those bums, and get some people willing to get results.
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You envision a California beach bum .
II. verb
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■ ADVERB
around
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I've spent years on the road with natro groups, mostly abroad, just bumming around .
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Mine is bumming around Grand Forks.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He's always bumming drinks off people and it really gets on my nerves.
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I bummed a ride from Sue.
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I think Steve managed to bum a lift home.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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BTheodora sees Johnny up the street, bums a little change, then heads to a nearby liquor store.
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For the last 18 months of his life, he bummed money, cigarettes and sympathy from his friends.
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He spent a whole year bumming from friends, crashing in strange places, selling weed with pals to make his bread.
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In a cabin soaked in pure oxygen at greater than atmospheric pressure for five hours, almost anything bums.
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Once empty the external tank is jettisoned and will bum up in the atmosphere.
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Please help me out before I shrink, fade or bum all my new does.
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Then he laughed, and Petey felt it was worse that Ted had laughed, because afterward he seemed bummed out.
III. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
rap
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They got me on a bum rap .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He gave me a lot of bum advice.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I moved the bum leg then, limped toward the door, and I started to spin.
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It's going to be a bum deal all through for poor Cliffy.
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It really was bum shooting, Jack.
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The board also urged the courts to impose the maximum fines on bum landlords.