Usually means: Friend, often used in slang.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word Chum:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. chum: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. chum, chum, chum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chum, chum, chum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. chum: Collins English Dictionary
  5. chum: Vocabulary.com
  6. Chum, chum: Wordnik
  7. chum: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Chum, chum: Wiktionary
  9. chum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. chum: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. chum: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Chum, chum: Dictionary.com
  13. chum (1), chum (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. chum: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. CHUM (AM), Chum (song), Chum (tent), Chum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Chum: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. chum: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. chum: Rhymezone
  19. Chum: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. chum: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. CHUM: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. Chum: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. chum: Free Dictionary
  24. chum: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Chum: The Word Detective
  26. chum: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. chum: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. chum: Netlingo
  2. Chum (disambiguation), chum: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CHUM: Acronym Finder
  2. chum: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. chum, chum: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Chum: A Seattle Lexicon
  3. chum: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See chuming as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Chum)

noun:  (dated) A friend; a pal.
noun:  (dated) A roommate, especially in a college or university.
verb:  (intransitive) To share rooms with someone; to live together.
verb:  (transitive) To lodge (somebody) with another person or people.
verb:  (intransitive) To make friends; to socialize.
verb:  (transitive, Scotland, informal) To accompany.
noun:  (fishing, chiefly Canada, US) A mixture of (frequently rancid) fish parts and blood, dumped into the water as groundbait to attract predator fish, such as sharks.
verb:  (fishing, transitive, intransitive) To cast chum into the water to attract fish.
noun:  (pottery) A coarse mould for holding the clay while being worked on a whirler, lathe or manually.
noun:  Synonym of chum salmon
noun:  A temporary dwelling used by the nomadic Uralic reindeer herders of northwestern Siberia.
noun:  A surname.

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