cum

1. Used in indicating a thing or person which has two or more roles, functions, or natures, or which has changed from one to another.

   One driver-cum-fireman-cum-fitter looks after the three locomotives, [...].

   1944 May and June, “Notes and News: The Snailbeach District Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 183

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   He is too good an actor to need that sort of tomfoolery: the effect will be far better if he is a credible mining camp elder-cum-publican.

   1926-1950, George Bernard Shaw, Collected Letters: 1926-1950, University of California/Viking, published 1985, page 31

   The banner shows a yellowed silhouette of a boy (possibly Calvin, of Calvin & Hobbes) urinating on an EU flag. Sites such as this show the full power of the Internet as a propaganda medium cum travel service cum organizing tool. Oh, and nightlife directory.

   2001 Nov/Dec, David Sachs, “LET THEM EAT BITS”, in American Spectator, volume 34, number 8, page 78

   Coffee shops-cum-meeting-spots dotted across the city are teeming (Equator, Blue Bottle and Saint Frank). Caffeine-fuelled, lactose-intolerant, macadamia milk latte-drinking young folk are journalling, manifesting, coding, ChatGPT-ing and pitching their ideas.

   2023 February 5, Kathryn Parsons, “Boom times are back in San Francisco’s tech mecca”, in The Sunday Times, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2026

   [Sam] Altman, the techno-optimist bent on commercialization, lost out to [Ilya] Sutskever, the Brutus cum mad scientist fearful that super-smart AI poses an existential risk to humanity.

   2023 November 22, Derek Thompson, “The OpenAI Mess Is About One Big Thing”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 22 Nov 2023

   Funnily enough, it wasn't that long ago that the year 2016 was derided for being overly romanticised, rooted in the “hope and change” ideals-cum-slogans used by the 2008 Obama presidential campaign before that all got blown away.

   2026 January 24, Elizabeth Paton, “Remember those innocent days of 2016?”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20

1. colloquialuncountablevulgarSemen.

   This week I learned that cum tastes like nickels.

   2014, Norm Macdonald Live, season 2, episode 3, spoken by Norm Macdonald

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   Jim descends into the murky tunnel; the faint odor of cum permeates the air.

   1977, John Rechy, The Sexual Outlaw, New York: Dell, →ISBN, page 73

   Licking a friend's cum off another friend's belly.

   1989 December 24, Read Weaver, “Queers For Years”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 24, page 9

   Synonyms: jizz, spunk, spooge, nut, skeet, junk, baby batter, baby gravy

2. colloquialuncountablevulgarFemale ejaculatory discharge.
3. colloquialuncountablevulgarAn ejaculation.

present singular third person cums · participle present cumming · past came · nonstandard past cummed · participle past come · nonstandard participle past cummed

1. colloquialslangvulgarTo have an orgasm, to feel the sensation of an orgasm.

   Despite claims to the contrary, a woman can cum from anal sex alone.

   Synonyms: climax

2. colloquialslangvulgarTo ejaculate.

   Some men cum as much as 10 milliliters.

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   I got no sensation down there, so I don't know when I'm hard, I don't know when I cum. My wife's gotta tell me.

   1997 July 14, “Visits, Conjugal, and Otherwise”, in Oz, season 1, episode 2, spoken by Augustus Hill (Harold Perrineau)

   Sucking on pork ribs and summoning pornography / So that we can cum when we fuck / Our partners don’t know us / Our families are strangers

   2019, “All Humans Too Late”, in The Book of Traps and Lessons, performed by Kae Tempest

   Synonyms: blow one's load, blow one's wad, blow a nut, breed, bust, bust a nut, come, cream

3. colloquialpronunciation spellingvulgarEye dialect spelling of come (“move from further to nearer; arrive”).

   “Where'd he cum from?” the bowman inquired. “That's what we'd like ter know, yer see; where he cum from, and how he happen'd to cum,” responded the steersman. “But he's a jolly good feller, strong as a lion, […]”

   1882, William Makepeace Thayer, From Log-Cabin to White House, page 162

1. abbreviationcolloquialnot comparablevulgarAbbreviation of cumulative.

1. abbreviationcolloquialuncountablevulgarAbbreviation of cubic metre.

   The density of cement is 1440 kg/cum.

1. humorousvulgarSynonym of North American Union.

   Synonyms: North American Union