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How to use bum in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb, interjection

Bum means the buttocks. Example: “Okay, everyone sit on your bum and try and touch your toes.”

Examples of bum by meaning

nounThe buttocks.

  • Okay, everyone sit on your bum and try and touch your toes.
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:bum.

nounThe anus.

  • John said that when he was little he stuck his finger in his bum and tasted his poopies and it was good.2013, Steven L. Ablon, Daniel P. Brown, Edward J. Khantzian, Human Feelings: Explorations in Affect Development and Meaning, page 132
  • What could the man possibly be hiding up his bum anyway?2015, Jonathan Nicholas, Who'd be a copper?: Thirty years a frontline British cop

interjectionAn expression of annoyance.

  • Maxine tried hers. ‘Oh bum,’ she said crossly. ‘The sugar isn’t sugar.2010, Jill Mansell, Sheer Mischief

nounA player or racer who often performs poorly.

  • Trade him to another team, he’s a bum!

verb[with off or (nonstandard) off of] To ask someone to give one (something) for free; to beg for something.

  • Can I bum a cigarette off you?

verbTo stay idle and unproductive, like a hobo or vagabond.

  • I think I’ll just bum around downtown for a while until dinner.

adjectiveOf poor quality or highly undesirable.

  • What kind of bum note was that??
  • The defensive line made a bum rush on the quarterback.
  • "So I can see my finish with that firm when this bum show is over." "Well, I think you're silly, the way you go out of your way to get McIntyre's goat.1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 4

adjectiveUnfair.

  • The union reps gave us a bum deal!

More sentences with bum

  • The dog is wont to bum shuffle on the rug immediately after relieving himself outside.From the entry bum shuffle
  • The mother dusted her baby’s bum with talcum powder.From the entry dust
  • Can I bum a smoke off you?From the entry smoke
  • I had nothing to wipe my bum with.From the entry wipe
  • "These kinds of thefts are common as bums at a soup kitchen," Ed said, yawning.2016, Joe Ide, IQ, page 296. From the entry common as bums
  • He says it so fast, though, that it almost sounds like, "Long may your bum reek."2015, Leah Marie Brown, Finding It (An It Girl Novel), New York, N.Y.: Lyrical Press, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN. From the entry lang may yer lum reek
  • And what greater weakness could there be than a bum hole?2014 May 8, Mark Simpson, “There's a Lot that's Gay About Soccer (Just Don't Tell the Fans)”, in Out. From the entry bum hole
  • Until recently, London has had only one building that works by way of a euphemism for bumming.2013 February 8, Caitlin Moran, “The Shard”, in The Times. From the entry up the Oxo Tower
  • Anyway, bums were always on view in our family, getting leathered with a heavy belt.2011, Agnes Owens, Agnes Owens: The Complete Novellas, →ISBN. From the entry leather
  • I can tell you of another who is likely to bum squabble you, and that's James Wendover.2011, Georgette Heyer, Black Sheep, page 96. From the entry bum squabble
  • They may be compared to the bum burp of the household cat.2009, George Same, Yxsy Glyxsy, page 357. From the entry bum burp
  • Berichon: I proceeded to pull the pistol out of the bum bag.2007, Poul Anderson, Shocking Australian True Crime Stories, unnumbered page. From the entry bum bag
  • At the start of calving season, there was another bum calf, Ferdinand, whose mother had abandoned him.2005, Lynn Parr, Cowgirl: A Home on the Wyoming Range, page 149. From the entry bum calf
  • And which bums explained the strategy behind it, so you wouldn't attribute it to young hoodla?March 17, 2003, bob geary, “Re: Returning bottles”, in alt.fan.cecil-adams (Usenet). From the entry hoodla
  • His bum looks like one of those jelly-blubbers pulsating through the water.2002, J.A. Mawter, So Feral!, page 26. From the entry jelly blubber
  • I'm sick of you being a mooch, bumming off me all the time!2000 July 8, “Dulcie Domum: London calling”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry mooch
  • Kevin considered bumming a cig, but he doubted any of them would part with one.1998, Doug Guinan, California Screaming, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 287. From the entry grande
  • To lure customers, they give you a free plastic bum bag with every Whopper Meal.1995, Vitali Vitaliev, Little is the Light: Nostalgic Travels in the Mini-States of Europe, page 226. From the entry bum bag
  • Do you deny the whole scene was contrived to —to bum squabble me?1995, Donna Fletcher Crow, Where Love Begins, page 110. From the entry bum squabble
  • She usually manages to be busy feeding some bum calf or wrangling the horses or something.1992, Teresa Jordan, Cowgirls: Women of the American West, page 83. From the entry bum calf
  • He never, so far as I knew, gave me a bum steer.1977, Kingsley Amis, Harold's years: impressions from the New Statesman and the Spectator. From the entry bum steer
  • Along the way, he dropped out of sight several times to bum around South America.1974 November 25, “The Original Kojak”, in Time. From the entry bum around
  • Remember when I was bumming around Chelsea on the purple hearts!1966, Alan Bestic, Turn Me on Man, page 20. From the entry pilled
  • You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you?1965, Bob Dylan, “Like a Rolling Stone”. From the entry prime
  • “He can’t deny the murder of his wife.” “That was a bum beef, Arnie.”1962, Ross Macdonald, The Zebra-Striped Hearse. From the entry bum beef
  • Ma's out, Pa's out, let's talk rude-- Pee, po, belly, bum, drawers!1961, Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, “P** P* B**** B** D*******”, in The Bestiary of Flanders & Swann. From the entry po
  • Bruises and bumps in the Kentucky camp were as common as bums at a free barbecue.1938 October 25, “Wildcats Fall Before Xavier 26-7 at Cincy”, in The Kentucky Kernel, volume 29, number 12, Lexington, Kentucky, page 1. From the entry common as bums
  • "I didnt' think you fellows'd put the bum's rush onto me," he complained, "I ain't no bum."1911 March, Wm. Hamilton Osborne, “Blowing the Crowd”, in Ambition: A Journal of Inspiration to Self Help, volume 9, number 8. From the entry bum's rush

Meaning of bum

  1. noun The buttocks.
  2. noun The anus.
  3. noun An act of anal sex.

Full definition of bum

Questions about bum in a sentence

How do you use bum in a sentence?
Bum is used as a noun, verb and interjection. For example: “Okay, everyone sit on your bum and try and touch your toes.”
What is a short sentence with bum?
“Can I bum a cigarette off you?”
What does bum mean?
Bum means the buttocks.

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