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bum

noun as in buttocks

noun as in enthusiast

Strongest match

verb as in to borrow, mooch

Strongest matches

Strong match

adjective as in fake, misleading, disappointing

adjective as in injured, impaired

Strongest match

Weak match

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It's advice such as this that Lydia Cheetham from Penarth wishes she had been given eight years ago, when the trend was "big lips, big bum big cheeks - it was everything bigger," she said.

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“Obviously, we’re more concerned in that spot to run and hand off and not have reads to go, but just the end result, obviously I’m bummed.”

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"If you obsess so much on youth that will bite you on the bum, unfortunately."

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Despite some impressively garish trousers, YouTuber George Clarke hit a bum note with his Jive to Harry Styles' As It Was.

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"It was hands and knees stuff and skidding down on your bum through water," he said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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