1. Of very poor quality
   "The bum TV broke after just a month";
   - cheap, cheesy [informal], chintzy [N. Amer, informal], crummy [informal], punk [N. Amer, informal], tinny [archaic], tacky [informal], crumby [informal]
    
2. Wrong, out of place or inappropriate
   "hit a bum note"

1. [N. Amer, informal] A homeless person or vagrant
   "he tried to help the really down-and-out bums";
   - tramp, hobo [N. Amer, informal], bindlestiff [US], skell [US, informal]
    
2. [N. Amer, informal] Person who does no work
   "a lazy bum";
   - idler, loafer, do-nothing [informal], layabout [informal], slacker [informal], shirker [informal], deadbeat [informal]
    
3. [N. Amer, informal] A person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
   "throw the bum out";
   - rotter [Brit, informal], dirty dog [informal], rat [informal], skunk [informal], stinker [informal], stinkpot [N. Amer, informal], crumb [N. Amer, informal], lowlife [informal], so-and-so [informal], git [Brit, informal], scumbag [informal], swine [informal], scuzz [N. Amer, informal], sod [Brit, informal], sleazeball [informal], scuzzbucket [N. Amer, informal], sleazebag [informal], scuzzball [N. Amer, informal], sleazebucket [informal], slimebag [informal], slimeball [informal], toad [informal], dirtbag [US, informal], toerag [Brit, informal], scuzzbag [N. Amer, informal], ratbag [Brit, informal]
    
4. [Brit, informal] The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
   "he deserves a good kick in the bum";
   - buttocks, nates [informal, technical], butt [N. Amer, informal], backside [informal], buns [N. Amer, informal], can [N. Amer, informal], fundament [informal], hindquarters [informal], hind end [informal], posterior [informal], rear [informal], rear end [informal], rump [informal], stern [informal], seat [informal], tail [N. Amer, informal], tail end [informal], tooshie [informal], tush [N. Amer, informal], bottom [informal], behind [informal], derriere [informal], patootie [US, informal], botty [informal], duff [N. Amer, informal], bahookie [UK, dialect, informal], booty [N. Amer, informal], heinie [US, informal], tushy [N. Amer, informal], derrière [informal]

1. Ask for and get free; be a parasite
   "He always tries to bum cigarettes off his coworkers";
   - mooch [N. Amer, informal], cadge [informal], grub [informal], sponge [informal], bludge [Austral, NZ, informal], sponge off [informal]
    
2. Waste time by being idle or engaging in aimless activity
   "Her son is just bumming around all day"; "He bummed about all summer instead of looking for a job";
   - bum around [informal], bum about [informal], arse around [Brit, Cdn, informal], arse about [Brit, Cdn, informal], loaf [informal], waste one's time, lounge around, loll, loll around [informal], lounge about, slob [Brit, informal]

Derived forms: bumming, bummed, bums

See also: gimcrack, inferior, tacky [informal], tawdry

Type of: body part, clochard, disagreeable person, drifter, floater, idle, laze, nonworker, obtain, slug [informal], unpleasant person, vag [Austral, informal], vagabond, vagrant

Part of: body, torso, trunk

Encyclopedia: Bum, Azerbaijan