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um n. 1 buttocks, posterior, hindquarters, fundament, behind,
rump, bottom, behind, derriŠre, rear end, backside, seat, rear,
Colloq Brit arse, US fanny, can, hinie, tush, tushy or tushie,
tokus or tochis or tuchis, keister or keester, ass: Why don't
you get off your fat bum and go out and get a job?! 2 tramp,
panhandler, beggar, vagrant, loafer, drifter, vagabond, hobo,
derelict, gypsy; Brit caird, tinker, traveller; US
(shopping-)bag lady: Along the Bowery the doorways and
pavements are strewn with bums. 3 improper, unjustified, false,
trumped up, untrue, fabricated, made-up, bogus: That auto theft
charge was a bum rap, but he still served 18 months.
--adj. 4 bad, awful, unfair, dishonest, poor, rotten, Slang
lousy, crummy: I still think you got a bum deal on that
toaster.
--v. 5 borrow, beg, sponge, Colloq scrounge, cadge, touch, put
the touch on, US mooch, hit, hit up: Can I bum a cigarette from
you?
bump n. 1 blow, collision, thud, hit, knock, buffet, clunk, whack:
That bump on the head seems to have affected him. 2 lump,
protuberance, welt, swelling, tumescence, knob, bulge: How did
you get that bump on your forehead?
--v. 3 knock (against), strike, hit, collide (with), run into,
ram; smash, crash, Colloq wallop: I bumped into the car in
front as I was parking. 4 bump into. meet, encounter, run into
or across, come across, stumble over: I bumped into Philippa at
the hairdresser's. 5 bump off. murder, kill, put away,
assassinate, do away with, execute, liquidate, dispatch or
despatch, Slang take for a ride, destroy, eliminate, rub out,
wipe out, do in, US waste, ice: They bumped off Wimpy, boss; he
was pulled out of the river wearing concrete overshoes.
bumpy adj. lumpy, rough, uneven, irregular, knobby, knobbly, pitted;
potholed, bouncy, jarring, jerky, rutted: The skin on his
forehead is a bit bumpy. This is the bumpiest road in the town.
bunch n. 1 bundle, cluster, batch, clump; bouquet, nosegay, posy,
spray: That's a nice-looking bunch of grapes. Mr Herbert
arrived with a bunch of flowers for me. 2 crowd, knot,
collection, group, lot, gathering, cluster, clutch, batch,