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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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But sometimes you can’t, like when you ask a chatbot a factual question and get a bum steer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

His father, who he describes as a ski bum, won custody and brought him back to Norway, where he took up ski racing at the age of eight.

From Barron's • Feb. 14, 2026

Do you agree, and if so does that bum you out?

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2025

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

From BBC • Oct. 31, 2025

Supporting the scrawny bonobo bum with one hand, I pulled the cash out of my pocket and handed it to the man.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer