bum — English Dictionary

Noun

1. The buttocks.

   Usage

   • Commonwealth usage
   • childish
   • Informal

   Examples

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

   For quotations using this term, see Citations:bum.

2. The anus.

   Usage

   • Commonwealth usage
   • childish
   • Informal
   • specifically

   Examples

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

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

   More examples (2)

   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])?

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

3. An act of anal sex.

   Usage

   • East-Midlands
   • Slang
   • Vulgar

   Synonyms

   bumfuck

   Examples

   Go for a bum

Verb

1. To sodomize; to engage in anal sex.

   Usage

   • Ireland
   • UK usage
   • Colloquial
   • Transitive

   Synonyms

   bumfuck

   Examples

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

Interjection

1. An expression of annoyance.

   Usage

   • Ireland
   • UK usage
   • childish
   • euphemistic

   Synonyms

   arse

   Examples

   (more vulgar)

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

Noun

1. A homeless person, usually a man.

   Usage

   • Colloquial
   • Derogatory
   • sometimes

   Synonyms

   street bumtrampvagrantwanderervagabond

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

   Usage

   • also
   • broadly
   • Colloquial
   • Derogatory
   • sometimes

   Synonyms

   loaferbumpkinfootler

   Examples

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

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

   More examples (3)

   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

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

3. A player or racer who often performs poorly.

   Usage

   • Colloquial

   Examples

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

   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”

4. A drinking spree.

   Usage

   • Colloquial

   Synonyms

   bingebender

Verb

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

   Usage

   • Colloquial
   • Transitive

   Synonyms

   cadge

   Examples

   Can I bum a cigarette off you?

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

   Usage

   • Colloquial
   • Intransitive

   Synonyms

   loiter

   Examples

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

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

   Usage

   • UK usage
   • Colloquial
   • Slang
   • Transitive

Adjective

1. Of poor quality or highly undesirable.

   Usage

   • Colloquial
   • Slang

   Synonyms

   bumfucklousysubpar

   Examples

   What kind of bum note was that??

   The defensive line made a bum rush on the quarterback.

   More examples (1)

   "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."

2. Unfair.

   Usage

   • Colloquial
   • Slang

   Synonyms

   iniquitousunsporting

   Examples

   The union reps gave us a bum deal!

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

   Usage

   • Colloquial
   • Slang

   Synonyms

   duffjankyriven

   Examples

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

4. Unpleasant or unhappy.

   Usage

   • Colloquial
   • Slang

   Synonyms

   fouldisagreeabledistasteful

   Examples

   He had a bum trip on that mescaline.

Verb

1. To depress; to make unhappy.

   Usage

   • Colloquial
   • Slang

Noun

1. A humming noise.

   Usage

   • Colloquial
   • Dated
   • Slang

Verb

1. To make a murmuring or humming sound.

   Usage

   • Colloquial
   • Intransitive
   • Slang

   Examples

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

Noun

1. A bumbailiff.

   Usage

   • Colloquial
   • Obsolete
   • Slang

   Examples

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

Adjective

1. of very poor quality; flimsy

   Synonyms

   cheapcheesychintzycrummypunksleazytinny

Noun

1. a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible

   Synonyms

   rotterdirty dogratskunkstinkerstinkpotpukecrumblowlifescumbagso-and-sogitscum bag

   Broader terms

   unpleasant persondisagreeable person

   Examples

   only a rotter would do that

   kill the rat

   More examples (3)

   throw the bum out

   you cowardly little pukes!

   the British call a contemptible person a ‘git’

2. a vagrant

   Synonyms

   tramphobo

   Broader terms

   vagrantdrifterfloatervagabondclochard

   Examples

   a homeless tramp

   he tried to help the really down-and-out bums

3. person who does no work

   Synonyms

   idlerloaferdo-nothinglayabout

   Broader terms

   nonworker

   Examples

   a lazy bum

4. the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on

   Synonyms

   buttocksnatesarsebuttbacksidebunscanfundamenthindquartershind endkeisterposteriorpratrearrear endrumpsternseattailtail endtooshietushbottombehindderrierefannyass

   Broader terms

   body part

   Examples

   he deserves a good kick in the butt

   are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?

Verb

1. ask for and get free; be a parasite

   Synonyms

   moochcadgegrubsponge

   Broader terms

   obtain

2. be lazy or idle

   Synonyms

   bum aroundbum aboutarse aroundarse aboutfuck offloaffrig aroundwaste one's timelounge aroundlollloll aroundlounge about

   Broader terms

   idlelazeslugstagnate

   Examples

   Her son is just bumming around all day