english
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bum around
informal
to spend time being lazy and doing very little
• I wish you'd stop bumming around and start looking for a job., bum around/about (somewhere)
informal
to travel around in different places or in a particular area, with no plans, no job and little money
• After college she spent a year bumming around the States.
Cambridge-Phrasal Verbs
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noun
lazy, shiftless person:
Dressed that way he looked like a bum
Simple Definitions
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noun person's bottom VERB + BUM feel, pinch A man pinched her bum on the train so she hit him. | sit on They've been sitting on their bums all day, doing nothing. lazy/useless person ADJ. low-down, no-good | lazy | beach He dropped out of college and became a beach bum.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
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In addition to the idioms beginning with BUM, Also see ON THE BLINK (BUM).
American Heritage Idioms