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| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | do-nothing, idler, layabout, loafer |
| Type of | nonworker |
| Has types | lounger, mope, ne'er-do-well, no-account, poke, shirker, slacker, slugabed, sluggard, spiv, sunbather, trailer, trifler, whittler, woolgatherer, slug, clock watcher, couch potato, dallier, dawdler, daydreamer, dilly-dallier, dillydallier, drone, goldbrick, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goof-off, laggard, lagger, lazybones, lie-abed, loon |
a lazy bum.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | arse about, arse around, bum about, bum around, frig around, fuck off, loaf, loll, loll around, lounge about, lounge around, waste one's time |
| Type of | laze, slug, idle, stagnate |
Her son is just bumming around all day.
Examples of bum
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The Reds'Scott Rolen, 36, went on the DL with a bum shoulder and a .217 average.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
Your bum should just clear the edge as you use your arms to lower yourself down.
From the style.uk.msn.com
If you take away his hat he'd fit in downtown at the mission because he's a bum.
From the ocregister.com
Soon, the former beach bum was testing fighter planes at Edwards Air Force Base.
From the ocregister.com
Do I want to bum them out or do I want to make them have this joyous experience?
From the post-gazette.com
So I think that our side got a bum rap about what was said about South Carolina.
From the denverpost.com
That was compounded by the backup point missing four weeks with a bum hamstring.
From the kansas.com
But why was he so brazen with his bum and what caption would you give the photo?
From the metro.co.uk
Becker told police Hackman called him a worthless bum and told him to get a job.
From the timesunion.com
- Mooch: ask for and get free; be a parasite
- Of very poor quality; flimsy
- Rotter: 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'"
- Be lazy or idle; "Her son is just bumming around all day"
- Tramp: a disreputable vagrant; "a homeless tramp"; "he tried to help the really down-and-out bums"
- Idler: person who does no work; "a lazy bum"
- The buttocks; (rare, Canada, US) The anus; A person; to sodomize; to engage in anal sex; Of poor quality or highly undesirable; Unfair; Injured and without the possibility of full repair, defective; Unpleasant
- (Bums) Nickname of the Brooklyn Dodgers, later the Los Angeles Dodgers
- Like "queer" or "bitch," this term for a wandering mendicant has long since been re-appropriated, as in the song, "Hallelujah, I'm a Bum. ...
