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bum

[buhm] / bʌm /




VERB
to borrow, mooch
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ADJECTIVE
fake, misleading, disappointing
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ADJECTIVE
injured, impaired
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While not a medical diagnosis, some users complain of how their body shape changes, including a deflated or saggy bum, dubbed Ozempic butt.

From BBC Jun. 8, 2026

Baker, a Dartmouth College grad and former ski bum who once worked as a housekeeper at a mountain lodge in Utah, started working at Fidelity in 1999 as an analyst.

From The Wall Street Journal May 22, 2026

Advancements that seek to end the friction of reality — the freak occurrences, edge cases and bum luck of a given day — ultimately sap the world of excitement and color.

From Salon Apr. 13, 2026

I went over and he looked at the prototype, and said, “Why don’t you move this seam over the bum by a centimeter. I think it’ll be more flattering.”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 5, 2026

Karl Johnson, having heard nothing from the team of doctors upriver in Bumba, wondered if they were dead, and assumed that the virus was about to go on a bum through the city.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

But that isn’t to suggest that the record is a bummer.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 9, 2026

Well, Carney’s made a movie about darkness and it’s a total bummer.

From Los Angeles Times May 28, 2026

While owners can turn off the banner ads, doing so eliminates the widget altogether, a bummer for Brian Bosworth, a media-industry engineer who liked the feature.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 23, 2026

Not to be a bummer, but come summer, you might just find yourself missing the snowflakes.

From Slate Feb. 25, 2026

“That’s kind of a bummer of a party.”

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

Say," he cried, "Snake's Fall is just the bummest location this side of the Sahara on a Sunday.

From The Son of his Father by Cullum, Ridgwell

Sir Alan Sugar made headlines last year when he said workers should "get their bums back into the office" and accused young people of just wanting "to sit at home".

From BBC Feb. 6, 2026

The Pad was lambasted in the print-shop windows where caricaturists laid into all the ludicrous fashions: bums, breasts, bellies, skirts, hats, and hair.

From Slate Jul. 21, 2025

The Red Apple attracted Route 66 tourists and beach bums alike who could avail themselves of the Red Apple’s in-room radios and kitchenettes.

From Los Angeles Times May 15, 2025

I look at guys who party and don’t work out and that kind of bums me out, and I go, “Hey, man, not allowed to do that. That’s not the way it works.”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 18, 2025

I am the fire that bums against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

“In the office, we actually get really bummed when we realize we’re having a conversation and we forgot to turn on Granola,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

Yet with these new songs out in the world, the three musicians don’t seem particularly bummed not to have their old ones in ready circulation.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 1, 2026

Sykes told Radio 1's Rock Show that after originally recording Count Your Blessings as a 19-year-old, he felt "really bummed out about how it sounded".

From BBC Apr. 17, 2026

Bowen Yang is in a huge number of commercials these days, and every time I see him, I get a little more bummed out.

From Slate Feb. 8, 2026

“Not at all,” Erin says, but when she catches my eyes I can tell she’s a little bummed, and definitely confused, so I shrug to let her know I have no idea what’s going on.

From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick

“Before ChatGPT, my mom would call me, like, every week, and she’d be like, ‘Hey, you know you can stop like bumming around and go work at Google or something.’”

From Seattle Times Nov. 24, 2023

We had this life that was mainly just bumming around on your bike and drinking coffee.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2023

Her family life was volatile, though, and she left home at 15 or so, bumming around the Bay Area.

From New York Times May 17, 2023

The NFL has squeezed its overtime period from 15 minutes to 10, bumming out some.

From Washington Post Oct. 28, 2021

I thought maybe I might stop in a phone booth and give old Jane Gallagher a buzz before I started bumming my way west, but I wasn't in the mood.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger




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