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bum1
bəm/
informal
noun
North American
noun: bum; plural noun: bums
  1. 1.
    a vagrant.
    • a lazy or worthless person.
      "you ungrateful bum"
      synonyms: idler, loafer, slacker, good-for-nothing, ne'er-do-well, layabout, lounger, shirker;
      loser
      "you lazy bum"
  2. 2.
    a person who devotes a great deal of time to a specified activity.
    "a ski bum"
    synonyms: enthusiast, fan, aficionado, lover, freak, nut, buff, fanatic, addict
    "a ski bum"
verb
verb: bum; 3rd person present: bums; past tense: bummed; past participle: bummed; gerund or present participle: bumming
  1. 1.
    travel, with no particular purpose or destination.
    "he bummed around Florida for a few months"
    synonyms: loaf, lounge, idle, wander, drift, meander, dawdle;More
    informalmooch, lollygag
    "that summer he bummed around Montreal"
    • pass one's time idly.
      "we spent most of the summer just bumming around"
  2. 2.
    get by asking or begging.
    "they tried to bum money off us"
    synonyms: beg, borrow;More
    informalscrounge, cadge, sponge, mooch
    "they bummed money off him"
adjective
adjective: bum
  1. 1.
    of poor quality; bad or wrong.
    "not one bum note was played"
    synonyms: crummy, rotten, pathetic, lousy, pitiful;More
    bad, poor, second-rate, tinpot, third-rate, second-class, unsatisfactory, inadequate, unacceptable;
    dreadful, awful, terrible, deplorable, lamentable
    "a bum deal"
    antonyms: excellent
 
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