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chum
1[ chuhm ]
noun
- a close or intimate companion:
boyhood chums.
- Older Use. a roommate, as at college.
verb (used without object)
- to associate closely.
- Older Use. to share a room or rooms with another, especially in a dormitory at a college or prep school.
chum
2[ chuhm ]
noun
- cut or ground bait dumped into the water to attract fish to the area where one is fishing.
- fish refuse or scraps discarded by a cannery.
verb (used without object)
- to fish by attracting fish by dumping cut or ground bait into the water.
verb (used with object)
- to dump chum into (a body of water) so as to attract fish.
- to lure (fish) with chum:
They chummed the fish with hamburger.
chum
3[ chuhm ]
noun
chum
1/ ʃʌ /
noun
- informal.a close friend
verb
- intrusually foll byup with to be or become an intimate friend (of)
- tr to accompany
I'll chum you home
chum
2/ ʃʌ /
noun
- angling chopped fish, meal, etc, used as groundbait
chum
3/ ʃʊ /
noun
- a Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus keta
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of chum1
Origin of chum2
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of chum1
Origin of chum2
Origin of chum3
Example Sentences
As a bright October day unfolds, the contest mingles with an unavoidable sense of inevitability, but not enough for these once-a-week chums to unnecessarily sentimentalize the situation.
"Amanda's an awful woman, of course," he said, "a backstabbing snob who treats her children as accessories and turns every encounter with her 'mum chums' at the school gates into a blood sport."
Refreshingly, “Heart Eyes,” directed by Josh Ruben, is a flip throwback to a time when killers were creeps and victims were chum.
Here, during a nightmarish underwater rendition of his ballad “Come Undone,” those teenagers swirl around him like frenzied chum, their slashed wrists trailing blood as they threaten to sink him, too.
However, “Jaws 2” is a masterpiece when compared to the stream of bigscreen chum that followed, mercifully ending with 1987’s “Jaws: The Revenge.”
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