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“He just wanted to bum around and fish.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2025

People were hitting the road to avoid a working life and trying to sort of bum around the country,” he said.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2022

And to this day I am grateful to those photographers and reporters who let me bum around in the back seat of that cruiser.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2019

“I want someone who is going to take care of the place and ideally, let me bum around here for a while.”

From Washington Times ● May 22, 2016

"You will still be counting when dawn breaks in the east. How many fires bum around Riverrun tonight, I wonder?"

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin




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