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Definition of Bum around
1. Verb. Be lazy or idle. "Her son is just bumming around all day"
Generic synonyms: Idle, Laze, Slug, Stagnate
Derivative terms: Loafer
Definition of Bum around
1. Verb. (transitive and intransitive idiomatic) To wander around idly to no purpose; to loaf or loiter. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bum Around
Literary usage of Bum around
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The African Repository by American Colonization Society (1836)
"... planted there by order of Boatswain, as indicative of his hostile intentions
toward Bum Bum. Around us lay the dead who had died in the town. ..."
2. Publication of the American Sociological Society by American Sociological Association (1917)
"He don't learn a trade, nothing else—just wants to bum around. It is good for a
boy to work hard. He is some good then and knows lots when he gets big and ..."
3. The Civil War in Song and Story: 1860-1865 by Frank Moore (1889)
"I'm goin' hack to New York, and am goin' to lay off and take comfort, bum around
the engine-bouse, and run wid der machine.' " Mose — ' Well, I tell yer ..."
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