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bumsicles

bumsicles is the plural of bumsicle.

Meaning of bumsicle

Noun

bumsicle (plural bumsicles)

  1. (informal) A homeless person afflicted with hypothermia as a result of living outdoors in winter.
    • The 'bumsicle', as the jaded hospital doctors called him, had been frozen to the sidewalk and it took him and his partner a real solid effort to pry him off.2003 September 30, laurelc [username], “[atxc-pi] NEW: Popsicle toes (1/1)”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet)

Questions about bumsicles

What is bumsicles the plural of?
Bumsicles is the plural of bumsicle.

Words near bumsicles in the dictionary

  1. bums in seats
  2. bums on seats
  3. bums out
  4. bumshoving
  5. bumsicle
  6. bumsicles
  7. bumsquabbled
  8. Bumstead
  9. Bumsteads
  10. bumster
  11. bumsters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bumsicles (page history and authors); bumsicle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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