Bum

English Meaning

The buttock.

1. A tramp; a vagrant.
2. A lazy or shiftless person, especially one who seeks to live solely by the support of others.
3. An incompetent, insignificant, or obnoxious person: The batter called the pitcher a bum.
4. One who is devoted to a particular activity or milieu: a beach bum.
5. To live by begging and scavenging from place to place. Often used with around.
6. To loaf.
7. To acquire by begging; cadge. See Synonyms at cadge.
8. Slang To depress, dishearten, or dismay. Often used with out.
9. Inferior; worthless: gave me bum advice; did a bum job of fixing the car.
10. Disabled; malfunctioning: a bum shoulder.
11. Unfavorable or unfair: got a bum deal on my final grade for the course.
12. Unpleasant; lousy: had a bum time at the party.
13. on the bum Living as a vagrant or tramp.
14. on the bum Out of order; broken.
15. Chiefly British Slang The buttocks.