Meaning of Bum | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A bumbailiff.
   obsolete
2. The buttocks.
   Commonwealth, childish, informal
3. A homeless person, usually a man.
   colloquial, derogatory, sometimes
4. A humming noise.
   dated
5. A lazy, incompetent, or annoying person, usually a man.
   colloquial, derogatory, sometimes
6. The anus.
   Commonwealth, childish, informal
7. An act of anal sex.
   East-Midlands, slang, vulgar
8. A player or racer who often performs poorly.
   colloquial
9. A drinking spree.
   colloquial

Equivalents

Examples

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

“For quotations using this term, see Citations:bum.”

“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?”

“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.”

“Go for a bum”

“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.”

“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”

“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””

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

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