Bum

8 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bum \Bum\ (b[u^]m), n. [Contr. fr. bottom in this sense.]
     The buttock. [Low] --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  bum \bum\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {bummed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {bumming} (?).] [See {Boom}, v. i., to roar.]
     To make murmuring or humming sound. --Jamieson.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {to bum around} to wander about idly or aimlessly.
        [PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  bum \bum\ (b[u^]m), v. t.
     To borrow without intention of returning; to cadge; as, to
     bum a cigarette; to bum a cup of coffee; -- usually with
     inexpensive items as the object. [informal]
     [PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bum \Bum\, n.
     A humming noise. --Halliwell.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bum
       adj : of very poor quality [syn: {cheap}, {cheesy}, {chintzy}, {crummy},
              {punk}, {sleazy}, {tinny}]
       n 1: a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible;
            "only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw
            the bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British
            call a contemptible person a `git'" [syn: {rotter}, {dirty
            dog}, {rat}, {skunk}, {stinker}, {stinkpot}, {puke}, {crumb},
             {lowlife}, {scum bag}, {so-and-so}, {git}]
       2: a disreputable vagrant; "a homeless tramp"; "he tried to
          help the really down-and-out bums" [syn: {tramp}, {hobo}]
       3: person who does no work; "a lazy bum" [syn: {idler}, {loafer},
           {do-nothing}, {layabout}]
       4: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he
          deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit
          on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: {buttocks}, {nates},
          {arse}, {butt}, {backside}, {buns}, {can}, {fundament}, {hindquarters},
           {hind end}, {keister}, {posterior}, {prat}, {rear}, {rear
          end}, {rump}, {stern}, {seat}, {tail}, {tail end}, {tooshie},
           {tush}, {bottom}, {behind}, {derriere}, {fanny}, {ass}]
       v 1: ask for and get free; be a parasite [syn: {mooch}, {cadge},
            {grub}, {sponge}]
       2: be lazy or idle; "Her son is just bumming around all day"
          [syn: {bum around}, {bum about}, {arse around}, {arse
          about}, {fuck off}, {loaf}, {frig around}, {waste one's
          time}, {lounge around}, {loll}, {loll around}, {lounge
          about}]
       [also: {bumming}, {bummed}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  223 Moby Thesaurus words for "bum":
     Arab, Bowery bum, amiss, arse, ass, backside, bad, barfy,
     bat around, beach bum, beachcomber, beg, beggar, beggarly fellow,
     bender, birr, blighter, bo, bombilate, bombinate, boom, booze,
     boozehound, bottle sucker, bottom, brannigan, budmash, bumble,
     bummer, burr, bust, butt, buzz, cadge, cadger, caitiff, can,
     carouse, cheeks, cheesy, count ties, crappy, creepy, crummy,
     derelict, derriere, devil, dirty, dissatisfactory, divagate,
     do-nothing, dogie, dolittle, drift, drifter, drone, drunk,
     drunkard, elbow bender, faineant, fanny, flit, floater, gad,
     gad about, gallivant, gamin, gamine, ginhound, go about,
     go the rounds, godawful, goldbrick, good-for-naught,
     good-for-nothing, goof off, goshawful, grim, guttersnipe, hairy,
     hind end, hit, hit the road, hit the trail, hit up, hobo,
     homeless waif, hooch hound, hum, human wreck, icky, idler, jag,
     jaunt, keister, knock about, knock around, landloper, laze, lazy,
     lazybones, lazzarone, loaf, loafer, loiter, loll, losel, lounge,
     lowlife, lush, lusher, mauvais sujet, mean wretch, meander,
     mendicant, mendicant friar, mendicant order, mooch, moocher,
     mucker, mudlark, no-good, nomadize, panhandle, panhandler,
     pass the hat, pauvre diable, peregrinate, pererrate, piker,
     pilgarlic, poor, poor creature, poor devil, posterior, prat, prowl,
     punk, purr, putrid, ragamuffin, ragman, ragpicker, ramble, range,
     roam, rotten, rounder, rove, rum hound, rummy, rump, run about,
     rusty-dusty, sad case, sad sack, saunter, schnorrer, scrounge,
     scrounger, shitty, ski bum, skid-row bum, slouch, slug, slugabed,
     soak, souse, sponge, stern, stew, stiff, stinking, stinky,
     straggle, stray, street Arab, street arab, street urchin, stroll,
     strum, sundowner, surf bum, swagman, swagsman, swillbelly,
     swillbowl, swillpot, tail, tatterdemalion, tennis bum, thrum,
     touch, traipse, tramp, truant, tuchis, turnpiker, tush, tushy,
     unsatisfactory, up, urchin, vag, vagabond, vagabondize, vagrant,
     vaurien, vomity, waif, waifs and strays, walk the tracks, wander,
     wassail, wastrel, wayfare, whir, whiz, wino, worthless fellow,
     wretch, wrong, yecchy
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  bum 1. vt. To make highly efficient, either in time or space, often at
     the expense of clarity. "I managed to bum three more instructions out of
     that code." "I spent half the night bumming the interrupt code." In
     1996, this term and the practice it describes are semi-obsolete. In
     {elder days}, John McCarthy (inventor of {LISP}) used to compare some
     efficiency-obsessed hackers among his students to "ski bums"; thus,
     optimization became "program bumming", and eventually just "bumming". 2.
     To squeeze out excess; to remove something in order to improve whatever
     it was removed from (without changing function; this distinguishes the
     process from a {featurectomy}). 3. n. A small change to an algorithm,
     program, or hardware device to make it more efficient. "This hardware
     bum makes the jump instruction faster." Usage: now uncommon, largely
     superseded by v. {tune} (and n. {tweak}, {hack}), though none of these
     exactly capture sense 2. All these uses are rare in Commonwealth
     hackish, because in the parent dialects of English the noun `bum' is a
     rude synonym for `buttocks' and the verb `bum' for buggery.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  bum
       
          1. To make highly efficient, either in time or space, often at
          the expense of clarity.  "I managed to bum three more
          instructions out of that code."  "I spent half the night
          bumming the interrupt code."  In {elder days}, {John McCarthy}
          (inventor of {Lisp}) used to compare some efficiency-obsessed
          hackers among his students to "ski bums"; thus, optimisation
          became "program bumming", and eventually just "bumming".
       
          2. To squeeze out excess; to remove something in order to
          improve whatever it was removed from (without changing
          function; this distinguishes the process from a
          {featurectomy}).
       
          3.  A small change to an algorithm, program, or hardware
          device to make it more efficient.  "This hardware bum makes
          the jump instruction faster."
       
          Usage: now uncommon, largely superseded by v. {tune} (and
          {tweak}, {hack}), though none of these exactly capture sense
          2.  All these uses are rare in Commonwealth hackish, because
          in the parent dialects of English "bum" is a rude synonym for
          "buttocks".
       
          [{Jargon File}]