bum

noun

1. (Commonwealth, childish, informal)The buttocks.

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

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

2. (Commonwealth, childish, informal, specifically)The anus.

   “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.”

3. (East-Midlands, slang, vulgar)An act of anal sex.

   “Go for a bum”

4. (colloquial, derogatory, sometimes)A homeless person, usually a man.
5. (also, broadly, colloquial, derogatory, sometimes)A lazy, incompetent, or annoying person, usually a man.

   “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”

6. (colloquial)A player or racer who often performs poorly.

   “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””

7. (colloquial)A drinking spree.
8. (colloquial, dated, slang)A humming noise.
9. (colloquial, obsolete, slang)A bumbailiff.

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

verb

1. (Ireland, UK, colloquial, transitive)To sodomize; to engage in anal sex.

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

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

   “Can I bum a cigarette off you?”

3. (colloquial, intransitive)To stay idle and unproductive, like a hobo or vagabond.

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

4. (British, colloquial, slang, transitive)To wet the end of a marijuana cigarette (spliff).
5. (colloquial, slang)To depress; to make unhappy.
6. (colloquial, intransitive, slang)To make a murmuring or humming sound.

   “English men bum there [Stirling] as thick as bees.”

intj

1. (Ireland, UK, childish, euphemistic)An expression of annoyance.

   “(more vulgar)”

   “Maxine tried hers. ‘Oh bum,’ she said crossly. ‘The sugar isn’t sugar. It’s salt.’”

adj

1. (colloquial, slang)Of poor quality or highly undesirable.

   “What kind of bum note was that??”

   “The defensive line made a bum rush on the quarterback.”

   “"So I can see my finish with that firm when this bum show is over." "Well, I think you're silly, the way you go out of your way to get McIntyre's goat. You do, don't deny it."”

2. (colloquial, slang)Unfair.

   “The union reps gave us a bum deal!”

3. (colloquial, slang)Injured and without the possibility of full repair, defective.

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

4. (colloquial, slang)Unpleasant or unhappy.

   “He had a bum trip on that mescaline.”