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bare-bum

bare-bum adjective: with one's bottom exposed, as for a spanking or a mooning.

Adjective

bare-bum (not comparable)

  1. (literally) With one's bottom exposed, as for a spanking or a mooning.
  2. (broadly) Stark naked.
    • Of course I do, Gran! Julian is always walking around bare-bum. I know all about boys and girls. And love and babies and all.1992, Louise Leblanc, Maddie in Goal (trans. Sarah Cummins), Formac (1992; original French book published 1991), page 12
    • Having never experienced communal bare-bum soaking European style, I was sure I'd wandered into the men's room.1992 April, Martie Sterling, “My Last, Last Run”, in Ski

Synonyms of bare-bum

Forms of bare-bum

alternative formbarebum

Origin of bare-bum

From bare + bum.

Questions about bare-bum

What does bare-bum mean?
Bare-bum means with one's bottom exposed, as for a spanking or a mooning.
What part of speech is bare-bum?
Bare-bum is an adjective.

Words near bare-bum in the dictionary

  1. bare-boned
  2. bare-bones
  3. bare-boobed
  4. bare-bottomed
  5. bare-breasted
  6. bare-bum
  7. bare-butt
  8. bare-chested
  9. bare-chestedness
  10. bare-eared squirrel monkey
  11. bare-eared squirrel monkeys

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