Usually means: Homeless or impoverished person; buttocks.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. bum: Merriam-Webster
  2. bum, bum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bum, bum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bum: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bum: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bum, bum: Wordnik
  7. bum: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bum: Wiktionary
  9. bum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bum: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bum: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Bum, bum: Dictionary.com
  13. bum (1), bum (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bum: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bum (disambiguation), Bum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bum: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bum: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bum: Rhymezone
  19. Bum: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bum: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. BUM: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. bum: FreeDictionary.org
  23. bum: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. bum: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. bum: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BuzzWhack (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bum: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Bum (disambiguation), bum: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. BUM, Bum (disambiguation): Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. BUM: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. bum: Idioms

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. bum: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. B.U.M: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bum: Card Games

(Note: See bummed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (informal or childish, chiefly Commonwealth) The buttocks.
noun:  (informal or childish, chiefly Commonwealth) The anus.
verb:  (UK, Ireland, transitive, colloquial) To sodomize; to engage in anal sex.
noun:  (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A homeless person, usually a man.
noun:  (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A lazy, incompetent, or annoying person, usually a man.
noun:  (colloquial, sports) A player or racer who often performs poorly.
noun:  (colloquial) A drinking spree.
verb:  (transitive, colloquial) To ask someone to give one (something) for free; to beg for something.
verb:  (intransitive, colloquial) To stay idle and unproductive, like a hobo or vagabond.
verb:  (transitive, slang, British) To wet the end of a marijuana cigarette (spliff).
adjective:  (slang) Of poor quality or highly undesirable.
adjective:  (slang) Unfair.
adjective:  (slang) Injured and without the possibility of full repair, defective.
adjective:  (slang) Unpleasant or unhappy.
verb:  To depress; to make unhappy.
noun:  (dated) A humming noise.
verb:  (intransitive) To make a murmuring or humming sound.
noun:  (obsolete) A bumbailiff.

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