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bum

noun as in buttocks

noun as in enthusiast

Strongest match

verb as in to borrow, mooch

Strongest matches

Strong match

adjective as in fake, misleading, disappointing

adjective as in injured, impaired

Strongest match

Weak match

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Example Sentences

Neither high-rise nor bikini style, it sits a couple of inches below the belly button and provides full bum coverage—nothing fancy, just a classic fit.

So, if you were ever bummed out in the way Feld suggested, cheer up—the reality is much more complicated than the headline.

So in late 1975, they bummed around all up and down the California heartland, casing various country towns and accounting for their advantages and disadvantages.

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I glanced up and saw it was none other than the stranger who had bummed cigarettes from us.

When I was 27, I quit my job to travel and ski-bum, and by that point I had managed to save a small sum that could float me for a year.

Rumours that Lego are producing a new clip-on Pippa Bum are unfounded.

Bum-boats selling goods before sunrising and after sunsetting are very hardly dealt with.

So Jack gave the cow to the man and took the Bum-clock himself, and started for home.

And when the man lifted the Bum-clock and put it in his pocket, everybody stopped jigging and dancing and everyone laughed loud.

An intelligent correspondent suggests that brandy would be about the thing, but that it should be labelled "Bay Bum."

They served us desserts made with Bum Berry goo As we danced to the tune of the didgeridoo.

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On this page you'll find 160 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to bum, such as: homeless person, unhoused person, derelict, drifter, floater, and hobo.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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