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bum1    Audio Help   [buhm] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, bummed, bum·ming, adjective, bum·mer, bum·mest.
–noun
1.a person who avoids work and sponges on others; loafer; idler.
2.a tramp, hobo, or derelict.
3.Informal. an enthusiast of a specific sport or recreational activity, esp. one who gives it priority over work, family life, etc.: a ski bum; a tennis bum.
4.Informal. an incompetent person.
5.a drunken orgy; debauch.
–verb (used with object)
6.Informal. to borrow without expectation of returning; get for nothing; cadge: He's always bumming cigarettes from me.
7.Slang. to ruin or spoil: The weather bummed our whole weekend.
–verb (used without object)
8.to sponge on others for a living; lead an idle or dissolute life.
9.to live as a hobo.
–adjective Slang.
10.of poor, wretched, or miserable quality; worthless.
11.disappointing; unpleasant.
12.erroneous or ill-advised; misleading: That tip on the stock market was a bum steer.
13.lame: a bum leg.
14.bum around, Informal. to travel, wander, or spend one's time aimlessly: We bummed around for a couple of hours after work.
15.bum (someone) out, Slang. to disappoint, upset, or annoy: It really bummed me out that she could have helped and didn't.
16.on the bum, Informal.
a.living or traveling as or in a manner suggesting that of a hobo or tramp.
b.in a state of disrepair or disorder: The oven is on the bum again.

[Origin: 1860–65, Americanism; perh. shortening of or back formation from bummer1; adj. senses of unclear relation to sense “loafer” and perh. of distinct orig.]

2. vagabond, vagrant.
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bum2    Audio Help   [buhm] Pronunciation Key
–noun Chiefly British Slang.
the buttocks; rump.

[Origin: 1350–1400; ME bom; of uncert. orig.]
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–noun Military Slang.
1.a reproduction of a document made with copying equipment.
2.a bag into which classified waste is put in preparation for destruction.

[Origin: perh. as shortening of bumf or bumfodder; def. 2 presumably as shortening of bum bag]
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bum 1    Audio Help   (bŭm)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A tramp; a vagrant.
  2. A lazy or shiftless person, especially one who seeks to live solely by the support of others.
  3. An incompetent, insignificant, or obnoxious person: The batter called the pitcher a bum.
  4. One who is devoted to a particular activity or milieu: a beach bum.

v.   bummed, bum·ming, bums

v.   intr.
  1. To live by begging and scavenging from place to place. Often used with around.
  2. To loaf.

v.   tr.
  1. To acquire by begging; cadge. See Synonyms at cadge.
  2. Slang To depress, dishearten, or dismay. Often used with out.

adj.  
  1. Inferior; worthless: gave me bum advice; did a bum job of fixing the car.
  2. Disabled; malfunctioning: a bum shoulder.
  3. Unfavorable or unfair: got a bum deal on my final grade for the course.
  4. Unpleasant; lousy: had a bum time at the party.


[Back-formation from bummer.]

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bum 2    Audio Help   (bŭm)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   Chiefly British Slang
The buttocks.


[Middle English bom.]

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bum  (1)
"buttocks," 1387, "probably onomatopoeic, to be compared with other words of similar sound and with the general sense of 'protuberance, swelling.' " [OED]

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bum  (2)
"dissolute loafer, tramp," 1864, Amer.Eng., from bummer "loafer, idle person" (1855), possibly an extension of the British word for "backside" (similar development took place in Scotland, 1540), but more prob. from Ger. slang bummler "loafer," from bummeln "go slowly, waste time." Bum first appears in a Ger.-Amer. context, and bummer was popular in the slang of the North's army in Amer. Civil War (as many as 216,000 Ger. immigrants in the ranks). Bum's rush "forcible ejection" first recorded 1910. Bummer "bad experience" is 1960s slang.

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bum

adjective
1. of very poor quality; flimsy 

noun
1. 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'" 
2. a disreputable vagrant; "a homeless tramp"; "he tried to help the really down-and-out bums" [syn: tramp
3. person who does no work; "a lazy bum" [syn: idler
4. 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?" [syn: buttocks

verb
1. ask for and get free; be a parasite [syn: mooch
2. be lazy or idle; "Her son is just bumming around all day" 

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bum

In addition to the idioms beginning with bum, also see on the blink (bum).


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Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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bum [bam] noun
the buttocks
Arabic: عَجيزَه، كَفَل، مُؤَخَّرَه
Chinese (Simplified): 屁股
Chinese (Traditional): 屁股
Czech: zadek, zadnice
Danish: rumpe; bagdel; røv
Dutch: gat
Estonian: taguots, kannikad
Finnish: pylly
French: cul
German: der Hintern
Greek: πισινός
Hungarian: fenék
Indonesian: bokong
Japanese:
Korean: 驩暳♣Ì
Latvian: sēžamvieta; pakaļa
Lithuanian: užpakaliukas
Norwegian: bak, rumpe
Polish: zadek
Portuguese (Brazil): bunda
Portuguese (Portugal): rabo
Romanian: dos
Russian: зад(ница)
Slovak: zadok, prdelka
Slovenian: rit
Spanish: culo, trasero
Swedish: rumpa, ända
Turkish: kıç, göt
bum [bam] noun
(especially American) a tramp or worthless person
Example: He doesn't work — he's just a bum.
Arabic: المُتَبَطِّل، المُتَسَكِّع
Chinese (Simplified): 游民
Chinese (Traditional): 遊民
Czech: vandrák; flákač
Danish: bums
Dutch: schooier
Estonian: paadialune
Finnish: pummi
French: vaurien
German: der Streuner
Greek: ακαμάτης, αλήτης
Hungarian: csavargó
Indonesian: orang gelandangan
Japanese: 浮浪者
Korean: 게으름뱅이
Latvian: klaidonis; slaists
Lithuanian: valkata
Norwegian: boms, landstryker, loffer
Polish: włóczęga, próżniak
Portuguese (Brazil): vagabundo
Portuguese (Portugal): vadio
Romanian: pierde-vară
Russian: бродяга; бездельник
Slovak: vandrák, tulák
Slovenian: lenuh
Swedish: luffare, utslagen
Turkish: serseri
bum [bam] adjective
worthless
Example: a bum job
Arabic: تافِه، لا قيمَةَ لَه
Chinese (Simplified): 无价值的
Chinese (Traditional): 無價值的
Czech: mizerný
Danish: totalt elendigt; lorte-
Dutch: rot-
Estonian: vilets
French: minable
German: wertlos
Greek: ανάξιος, ασήμαντος
Hungarian: értéktelen
Indonesian: tak berharga
Japanese: くだらない
Korean: 하찮은
Latvian: nevērtīgs
Lithuanian: menkavertis
Norwegian: elendig
Polish: do niczego
Portuguese (Brazil): desprezível
Portuguese (Portugal): inútil
Romanian: prost, mi­ze­rabil
Russian: дрянной
Slovak: mizerný
Slovenian: zanič
Spanish: inútil, que no vale
Swedish: usel, värdelös
Turkish: kötü, fena
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary, © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd.
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bum
1. To make highly efficient, either in time or space, often at the expense of clarity. "I managed to bum three more instructions out of that code." "I spent half the night bumming the interrupt code." In elder days, John McCarthy (inventor of Lisp) used to compare some efficiency-obsessed hackers among his students to "ski bums"; thus, optimisation became "program bumming", and eventually just "bumming".
2. To squeeze out excess; to remove something in order to improve whatever it was removed from (without changing function; this distinguishes the process from a featurectomy).
3. A small change to an algorithm, program, or hardware device to make it more efficient. "This hardware bum makes the jump instruction faster."
Usage: now uncommon, largely superseded by v. tune (and tweak, hack), though none of these exactly capture sense 2. All these uses are rare in Commonwealth hackish, because in the parent dialects of English "bum" is a rude synonym for "buttocks".
[The Jargon File]

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Bum

Boom\ (b[=oo]m), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Boomed, p. pr. & vb. n. Booming.] [Of imitative origin; cf. OE. bommen to hum, D. bommen to drum, sound as an empty barrel, also W. bwmp a hollow sound; aderyn y bwmp, the bird of the hollow sound, i. e., the bittern. Cf. Bum, Bump, v. i., Bomb, v. i.]

1. To cry with a hollow note; to make a hollow sound, as the bittern, and some insects.

At eve the beetle boometh Athwart the thicket lone. --Tennyson.

2. To make a hollow sound, as of waves or cannon.

Alarm guns booming through the night air. --W. Irving.

3. To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.

She comes booming down before it. --Totten.

4. To have a rapid growth in market value or in popular favor; to go on rushingly.
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Bum

Bum\, n. [Contr. fr. bottom in this sense.] The buttock. [Low] --Shak.
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Bum

Bum\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bummed; p. pr. & vb.n. Bumming (?).] [See Boom, v. i., to roar.] To make murmuring or humming sound. --Jamieson.
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