bum

The buttocks.Commonwealthchildishinformal

• Okay, everyone sit on your bum and try and touch your toes.
• For quotations using this term, see Citations:bum.

The anus.Commonwealthchildishinformal

• 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?

An act of anal sex.East-Midlandsslangvulgar

• Go for a bum

To sodomize; to engage in anal sex.IrelandUKcolloquial

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

An expression of annoyance.IrelandUKchildish

• (more vulgar)

A homeless person, usually a man.colloquialderogatorysometimes

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

• 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.

A player or racer who often performs poorly.colloquial

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

A drinking spree.colloquial

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

• Can I bum a cigarette off you?

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

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

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

Of poor quality or highly undesirable.colloquialslang

• What kind of bum note was that??
• The defensive line made a bum rush on the quarterback.

Unfair.colloquialslang

• The union reps gave us a bum deal!

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

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

Unpleasant or unhappy.colloquialslang

• He had a bum trip on that mescaline.

To depress; to make unhappy.colloquialslang

A humming noise.colloquialdatedslang

To make a murmuring or humming sound.colloquialintransitiveslang

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

A bumbailiff.colloquialobsoleteslang

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