😴 A lazy person 🧑‍🦯 A vagrant 🍑 The buttocks 😴 To be lazy 🤲 To ask for 🧑‍🦯 To travel by begging 💔 Very poor quality

to bum

1 8.9

To travel by asking strangers for rides or money

verb
/bʌm/

Informal

: mendigar

She had to bum a ride to get to the concert last night.

Examples

We can bum food from people at the park if we run out.
That guy at the freeway exit who bums for food and liquor every day?

Blog text (28)
They decided to bum around the city for the weekend, visiting new places.

Antonyms

to settle

463 2.5

To live in a place, often for a long time

Idioms

a bum steer

Archaic

1 9.4

Bad advice or directions that make you go the wrong way

to act like a bum

Offensive

8.6

To behave lazily and avoid work or responsibility

to feel like a bum

Offensive

8.6

To feel lazy and useless because you failed or did nothing

Phrasal Verbs

to bum around

Informal

3 7.9

Spend time doing very little or nothing

to bum about

2 8.6

To spend time doing very little and moving around without plans

to bum rush

Informal

1 9.6

To push into a place quickly and forcefully as a crowd

Compounds

bum rap

Informal

8 9.1

Unfair blame or punishment for something you did not do

bum chum

1 9.9

A close friend you do many things with

bum steer

Informal

1 9.8

Wrong advice that leads you to make a mistake

bum wine

Offensive

1 9.9

Cheap wine that often tastes bad and is bought by people with little money

bum head

Offensive

9.9

A person who behaves in a silly or careless way

corporate welfare bum

Offensive

9.9

A person, often a company leader, who gets government money they do not deserve

front bum

Offensive

9.9

The outer private parts of a girl or woman

welfare bum

Slur

9.9

A rude word for a person who gets government money and is seen as not trying to work

How Mobile

to bum

Informal

1 8.9

to hitchhike

Informal

48 3.9

to wander

379 1.3

to travel

∞ 1.0

to settle

463 2.5

Surface Forms

bum infinitive

bummed past

bummed past participle

bumming present participle

bums third person singular

Etymology

The verb bum meaning to travel by asking for rides or help comes from the noun bum for a vagrant, so to 'bum' your way through a place is to move around asking strangers for help.