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bumlike

bumlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a bum.

Adjective

bumlike (comparative more bumlike, superlative most bumlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a bum.
    • He starts rambling on about his days as a roadie with some heavy-metal band I vaguely recall liking in eighth grade. He sounds sort of half-cocked, but I kind of like the idea that there are still people like that in Aspen, guys who, for lack of a better description, look sort of bumlike and...2014 September 25, Alison Berkley Margo, “Princess: Taking the Lo road never felt so good”, in The Aspen Times

Forms of bumlike

comparativemore bumlike
superlativemost bumlike

Origin of bumlike

From bum + -like.

Questions about bumlike

What does bumlike mean?
Bumlike means resembling or characteristic of a bum.
What part of speech is bumlike?
Bumlike is an adjective.

Words near bumlike in the dictionary

  1. bumiputra
  2. bumiputras
  3. bumkin
  4. bumkins
  5. Bumler
  6. bumlike
  7. bumload
  8. bumloads
  9. bumlord
  10. bumlords
  11. bummage

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