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Your bum is your bottom, your rear-end, your behind. It can also be a vagrant or hobo, as well as a verb for lazing (bumming) around.

Bum is a name given to a beggar or homeless person: someone who tries to bum change from you. You don't have to be a bum to hum a cigarette from someone. Also, bum is a general insult, as in "The Yankees are bums!" A false accusation is a bum rap. If you remember that your bum is your butt — where you sit when you're being lazy — then the different meanings should fit together well.

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: bum

1	n v adj	a disreputable vagrant be lazy or idle of very poor quality; flimsy
2	n	the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: bum

n a disreputable vagrant

“he tried to help the really down-and-out bums”

Synonyms:: hobo, tramp

Types:: dosser, street person
someone who sleeps in any convenient place

Type of:: drifter, floater, vagabond, vagrant
a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support

n person who does no work

“a lazy bum”

Synonyms:: do-nothing, idler, layabout, loafer

Types:: show 24 types...; hide 24 types...; clock watcher
a worker preoccupied with the arrival of quitting time; couch potato
an idler who spends much time on a couch (usually watching television); dallier, dilly-dallier, dillydallier, lounger, mope
someone who wastes time; dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger, poke, trailer
someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind; daydreamer, woolgatherer
someone who indulges in idle or absentminded daydreaming; goldbrick, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goof-off, ne'er-do-well, no-account
an idle worthless person; lazybones
a lazy person; lie-abed, slugabed
a person who stays in bed until a relatively late hour; loon
a worthless lazy fellow; shirker, slacker
a person who shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime); slug, sluggard
an idle slothful person; spiv
a person without employment who makes money by various dubious schemes; goes about smartly dressed and having a good time; sunbather
someone who basks in the sunshine in order to get a suntan; trifler
one who behaves lightly or not seriously; whittler
someone who whittles (usually as an idle pastime); lotus-eater, stargazer
someone indifferent to the busy world; dreamer, escapist, wishful thinker
a person who escapes into a world of fantasy; goldbrick
a soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort; lingerer, loiterer
someone who lingers aimlessly in or about a place; malingerer, shammer, skulker
someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity; plodder, slowcoach, slowpoke, stick-in-the-mud
someone who moves slowly; potterer, putterer
a person who putters about; scrimshanker
a shirker; straggler, strayer
someone who strays or falls behind