Bum can refer to several different things:
In U.S. slang
- A homeless person, or more generally, a person of little moral worth
- In modern usage, the term "bum" is considered highly derogatory
- In hobo culture, the term "bum" referred specifically to a homeless person who does not work or travel, as opposed to a hobo, who was an itinerant, working homeless person
- In the plural, an affectionate term for the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team
- To cadge, beg, or borrow
- A washed-up has-been.
In U.K. slang
- The buttocks
- The act of anal sex - also bumfun 'to be bummed stiff'
- To sodomise
- Colloquial verb and noun meaning to live/someone who lives with no current employment or education. It's implication is that one who 'bum's around' or is a 'bum' is lazy or and dispondent. Particularly used in reference to young people seek neither further education nor work.
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