Other Definitions
bum (enc)
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Bum| Noun | 1. | bum - 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'"dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rotter, scum bag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker, stinkpot, crumb, rat | | | 2. | bum - a disreputable vagrant; "a homeless tramp"; "he tried to help the really down-and-out bums" | | | 3. |  bum - person who does no work; "a lazy bum"clock watcher - a worker preoccupied with the arrival of quitting time couch potato - an idler who spends much time on a couch (usually watching television) loon - a worthless lazy fellow shirker, slacker - a person who shirks their work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime) spiv - a person without employment who makes money by various dubious schemes; goes about smartly dressed and having a good time sunbather - someone who basks in the sunshine in order to get a suntan trifler - one who behaves lightly or not seriously whittler - someone who whittles (usually as an idle pastime) | | | 4. |  bum - 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?"arse, ass, behind, buns, buttocks, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, derriere, fanny, rear end, tooshie, tush, seat, fundament, backside, bottom, butt, rump, stern, tail end, tail, rear, can body part - any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity torso, trunk, body - the body excluding the head and neck and limbs; "they moved their arms and legs and bodies" | | | Verb | 1. | bum - ask for and get free; be a parasiteobtain - come into possession of; "How did you obtain the visa?" freeload - live off somebody's generosity; "This young man refuses to work and is freeloading" | | | 2. | bum - be lazy or idle; "Her son is just bumming around all day"arse about, arse around, bum about, bum around, frig around, fuck off, loaf, loll around, lounge about, lounge around, waste one's time, loll laze, slug, idle, stagnate - be idle; exist in a changeless situation; "The old man sat and stagnated on his porch"; "He slugged in bed all morning" | | | Adj. | 1. | bum - of very poor qualitycolloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech | |
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