bumnoun [ C ]
uk/bʌm/us/bʌm/bum noun [ C ] (BODY PART)
mainly UK informal the part of the body that you sit on
Synonym
bottom
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The buttocks
- arse
- ass
- back end
- backside
- behind
- booty
- bot
- bottom
- bun
- butt
- buttock
- cheek
- derrière
- duff
- gluteal
- haunch
- posterior
- rump
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bum noun [ C ] (PERSON)
US informal someone who has no home or job and lives by asking other people for money
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People who live or settle somewhere
- asylum seeker
- brain drain
- city slicker
- cohabitant
- cottager
- exodus
- foreign-returned
- frontiersman
- guest worker
- illegal alien
- lodger
- occupier
- outflow
- overspill
- resident
- roomer
- settler
- squatter
- villager
- welcome wagon
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bumadjective [ before noun ]
uk/bʌm/us/bʌm/slangbad in quality or not useful:
He gave us bum directions, but we eventually found the place.
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Informal words for bad
- badass
- crap
- crappy
- crash and burn idiom
- crook
- crud
- crummy
- duff
- lousy
- not be up to much idiom
- pappy
- piss-poor
- pisser
- pit
- shonky
- such as it is idiom
- tacky
- tawdry
- trashy
- wack
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bumverb [ T ]
uk/bʌm/us/bʌm/-mm- slangto ask someone for something without intending to pay for it:
Could I bum a cigarette off you?
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Making appeals & requests
- a cry for help idiom
- appellate
- application
- ask for sb
- beseech
- besiege
- besought
- cri de coeur
- crowdsource
- freeloader
- gateway
- go over sb's head idiom
- hit
- hit sb up
- I'll thank you to do sth idiom
- pester
- petition
- request
- scrounge
- sponge
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Phrasal verb(s)
bum around
bum around (somewhere)
bum sb out