bum

plural bums

1. CommonwealthchildishinformalThe buttocks.

   For quotations using this term, see Citations:bum.

   1 more example

   Okay, everyone sit on your bum and try and touch your toes.

   Synonyms: 'tocks, arse, arse cheeks, ass, ass cheeks, back, backside, batty

2. CommonwealthchildishinformalspecificallyThe anus.

   […] and said Daddy had put a finger up her bum.

   2017, Jean Renvoize, Innocence Destroyed: A Study of Child Sexual Abuse

   3 more examples

   John said that when he was little he stuck his finger in his bum and tasted his poopies and it was good.

   2013, Steven L. Ablon, Daniel P. Brown, Edward J. Khantzian, Human Feelings: Explorations in Affect Development and Meaning, page 132

   What could the man possibly be hiding up his bum anyway?

   2015, Jonathan Nicholas, Who'd be a copper?: Thirty years a frontline British cop

   Do you have intercourse (i.e., Do you penetrate your partner in the vagina or anus [bum]? Or does your partner penetrate your vagina or anus [bum])?

   2016, Lisa Keenan-Lindsay, Cheryl Sams, Constance L. O'Connor, Maternal Child Nursing Care in Canada, page 118

   Synonyms: a-hole, anus, arsehole, arse, asscunt, asshole, asspussy, ass

3. East MidlandsslangvulgarAn act of anal sex.

   Go for a bum

   Synonyms: bumfuck

present singular third person bums · participle present bumming · participle past bummed · past bummed

1. IrelandUKcolloquialtransitiveTo sodomize; to engage in anal sex.

   Your bars are fake and my bars are real; / Is it true you got bummed on a field?

   2016 December 3, “Soph Aspin Send”, performed by Millie B

   Synonyms: bumfuck

1. IrelandUKchildisheuphemisticAn expression of annoyance.

   (more vulgar)

   1 more example

   Maxine tried hers. ‘Oh bum,’ she said crossly. ‘The sugar isn’t sugar. It’s salt.’

   2010, Jill Mansell, Sheer Mischief

   Synonyms: arse

plural bums

1. colloquialderogatorysometimesA homeless person, usually a man.

   Synonyms: street bum, tramp, vagrant, wanderer, vagabond, stiff, casual, clochard

2. alsobroadlycolloquialderogatorysometimesA lazy, incompetent, or annoying person, usually a man.

   That mechanic’s a bum—he couldn’t fix a yo-yo.

   4 more examples

   Fred is becoming a bum—he’s not even bothering to work more than once a month.

   That guy keeps interrupting the concert. Throw the bum out!

   You’re a bum / You’re a punk / You’re an old slut on junk / Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed

   1987, “Fairytale of New York”, performed by The Pogues

   Man who do you just think you are? / A silly bum with seven stars

   1988, Michael Weikath, “Keeper of the Seven Keys”, in Keeper of the Seven Keys: Part II, performed by Helloween

   Synonyms: loafer, bumpkin, footler, couch potato, dawdler, deadbeat, dogfucker, do-naught

3. colloquialhobbiesA player or racer who often performs poorly.

   Trade him to another team, he’s a bum!

   1 more example

   Seabiscuit, wrote another reporter, “was a hero in California and a pretty fair sort of horse in the midwest. In the east, however, he was just a ‘bumʼ”

   2001, Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend

4. colloquialA drinking spree.

   Synonyms: binge, bender

present singular third person bums · participle present bumming · participle past bummed · past bummed

1. colloquialtransitive[with off or (nonstandard) off of] To ask someone to give one (something) for free; to beg for something.

   Can I bum a cigarette off you?

   Synonyms: cadge, beg, blag, cadge, leech, mooch, mump, scrounge

2. colloquialintransitiveTo stay idle and unproductive, like a hobo or vagabond.

   I think I’ll just bum around downtown for a while until dinner.

   Synonyms: loiter

3. UKcolloquialslangtransitiveTo wet the end of a marijuana cigarette (spliff).

comparative bummer · superlative bummest

1. colloquialslangOf poor quality or highly undesirable.

   What kind of bum note was that??

   2 more examples

   The defensive line made a bum rush on the quarterback.

   "So I can see my finish with that firm when this bum show is over." "Well, I think you're silly, the way you go out of your way to get McIntyre's goat. You do, don't deny it."

   1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 4

   Synonyms: bumfuck, lousy, subpar, ass, bad, base, below par, bottom-shelf

2. colloquialslangUnfair.

   The union reps gave us a bum deal!

   Synonyms: iniquitous, unsporting

3. colloquialslangInjured and without the possibility of full repair, defective.

   I can’t play football anymore on account of my bum knee.

   Synonyms: duff, janky, riven, banjaxed, broken, busted, fractured, ruptured

4. colloquialslangUnpleasant or unhappy.

   He had a bum trip on that mescaline.

   Synonyms: foul, disagreeable, distasteful, abhorrant, abhorrent, bad, sickly, mean

present singular third person bums · participle present bumming · participle past bummed · past bummed

1. colloquialslangTo depress; to make unhappy.

plural bums

1. colloquialdatedslangA humming noise.

present singular third person bums · participle present bumming · participle past bummed · past bummed

1. colloquialintransitiveslangTo make a murmuring or humming sound.

   English men bum there [Stirling] as thick as bees.

   1722, William Hamilton, The Wallace

plural bums

1. colloquialobsoleteslangA bumbailiff.

   About her Chariot, and behind, / Were Sergeants, Bums of every kind, / Tip-staffs, and all those Officers, / That squeeze a Living out of Tears.

   1705, Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees