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Meanings of bum in English
Synonyms
Examples for "tramp"
Examples for "tramp"
1
Workers no longer tramp or cycle home but drive warm, smart cars.
2
Presently the heavy tramp of the patrol was heard in the street.
3
The General rose, and once more his military tramp shook the gallery.
4
At this instant the tramp of horses was heard in the courtyard.
5
He heard the tramp of a million feet in the great cities.
1
Turning back, Rardove sailed a brief look over the young, derelict soldiers.
2
The building seemed even more derelict than it had twenty minutes ago.
3
Property porn was a great escape: derelict castles, run-down farms, lighthouse conversions.
4
Some promoters didn't share our concern, and staged events in derelict warehouses.
5
The city, the island, now carried the haunted feel of a derelict.
1
I have a vagabond streak in my blood and it's in evidence.
2
Beverly laughed with keen enjoyment over the discomfiture of the shame-faced vagabond.
3
He stuck his hands in his pockets, and felt vagabond-like and reckless.
4
You indulge in a gesture of annoyance, and call me a vagabond.
5
Every kind of restraint was naturally intolerable to such a vagabond nature.
1
The song which the vagrant was singing was the simplest of ballads.
2
A vagrant may have come across it, taken it to the church.'
3
I'd have thought you'd be more involved investigating all these vagrant murders.
4
Only you could possibly think that I would support your vagrant friends.'
5
Far more likely is it to confirm them in their vagrant propensities.
1
I certainly hope so, given that I've been a borderline hobo myself.
2
Both Pat and Waring knew that the hobo was wanted in Stacey.
3
I hate the place, I loathe it like a hobo hates water.
4
I figured to bluff him into telling which way the hobo went.
5
The two men who came boldly forward certainly had a hobo look.
Usage of bum in English
1
I remembered something Trapp had told me once about his bridge-bum days.
2
The trim, khaki-garbed enlistment officer rubs elbows with the lodging house bum.
3
Guess the lamp is on the bum, but you hardly need that.
4
The law, missing the right quarry, descends on the slower-moving, harmless bum.
5
I just couldn't resist giving him the bum's rush for a change.
6
What you boys let that old bum hang around you for anyway.
7
They ain't going to be any bum testimony taken in this court.
8
I'll get to that cheap bum in a way he won't forget.
9
That bum detective knows now that we're here to search the mine.
10
If you stay up reading to-night we'll give you the bum's rush.
11
Size up my hand beside Don Manuel's, and it looks pretty bum.
12
Still, our graft ain't so bum, at that-ifwe work it right.
13
A bum found him ninety minutes ago behind a 7-Eleven on Nuuanu.
14
The calendar is a bum way to measure the passage of time.
15
Protean waved his hand in front of one of the bum's faces.
16
For once, Ireland have not finished a campaign on a bum note.
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Translations for bum
Catalan
Bum through the time
Bum across language varieties
Australia
Common
United States of America
Less common
Ireland
Less common
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