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bum someone out

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bum

1  [buhm] noun, verb, bummed, bum⋅ming, adjective, bum⋅mer, bum⋅mest.
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–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.
—Verb phrase
14. bum around, Informal. to travel, wander, or spend one's time aimlessly: We bummed around for a couple of hours after work.
—Idioms
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 bummer 1 ; adj. senses of unclear relation to sense “loafer” and perh. of distinct orig.

Synonyms:
2. vagabond, vagrant.
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Slang Dictionary
bum (sth) (off (so))

  1. tv.
    to beg or borrow something (from someone). : Can I bum two quarters for a phone call?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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