bumming
Example Sentences
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“Before ChatGPT, my mom would call me, like, every week, and she’d be like, ‘Hey, you know you can stop like bumming around and go work at Google or something.’”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2023
We had this life that was mainly just bumming around on your bike and drinking coffee.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2023
Summing up his life in the mid-1980s, he wrote, “I was still bumming a ride on my Academy nomination.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2023
The NFL has squeezed its overtime period from 15 minutes to 10, bumming out some.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2021
"He was probably bumming his way home. He told me he was president of your class at Yale."
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
