Crossword-Solution: BUM 3 letters, 277 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
Bum n. The buttock.
Bum v. i., To make murmuring or humming sound.
Bum n. A humming noise.

We have 277 clues for the answer “BUM”

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"Borrow," as a cig 1 answer
"Hallelujah, I'm a ___" 1 answer
"Homeless person," in the past 1 answer
Ask for a cigarette 1 answer
Ask for, as a cigarette 1 answer
Ask for, as a cigarette, informally 1 answer
Backside, in Britain 1 answer
Beach ___ (seashore regular) 1 answer
Borrow (forver) 1 answer
Borrow in slang 1 answer
Borrow, as a smoke 1 answer
Borrow, but not really 1 answer
Bring down, with "out" 1 answer
Brooklyn Dodger sobriquet 1 answer
Brooklyn Dodger, affectionately 1 answer
Brooklyn emigrant. 1 answer
Cadge: sl. 1 answer
Canterbury tail? 1 answer
Depress, with "out" 1 answer
Dispirit, with "out" 1 answer
Dodger, Brooklyn-style 1 answer
Dodger, at one time. 1 answer
Dover derrière 1 answer
Down-and-out chap 1 answer
Erroneous, as a guess 1 answer
False, as a steer 1 answer
Get by asking 1 answer
Get by mooching 1 answer
Good-for-nothing type 1 answer
Good-for-nothing: Slang. 1 answer
Hobo; tramp 1 answer
Injured, as a knee 1 answer
It follows beach, ski and tennis 1 answer
It follows beach, ski, surf and tennis 1 answer
Kind of rap or steer 1 answer
Kind of steer 1 answer
Kind of steer at a track 1 answer
Kind of steer or rap 1 answer
LAZY dissolute person 1 answer
Lazy loafer 1 answer
Like some raps 1 answer
Like some steers 1 answer
Live by sponging. 1 answer
Loafer: Colloq. 1 answer
Loafer: Slang. 1 answer
London derriere? 1 answer
London derrière 1 answer
Lousy ballplayer, to an old-timey fan 1 answer
Mooch, as a cigarette 1 answer
Mooch, as a ride 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EREAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BUM (5)

Real Programmers aren't satisfied with code that hasn't been {bum}med into a state of {tense}ness just short of rupture.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
State Department, Justice, HUD; each is its own monolithic bureaucracy that does not change direction overnight because of some election in Bum- fuck, Iowa.
Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993
They're playing a tune in McGuffy's saloon, and it's cheery and bright in there (God! but I'm weak -- since the bitter dawn, and never a bite of food); I'll just go over and slip inside -- I mustn't give way to despair -- Perhaps I can bum a little booze if the boys are feeling good.
The Spell of the Yukon Robert Service 1995
Look at my face, it's crimped and gouged--one of them death-mask things; Don't seem the sort of man, do I, as might be the pal of kings? Slouching along in smelly rags, a bleary-eyed, no-good bum; A knight of the hollow needle, pard, spewed from the sodden slum.
Ballads of a Cheechako Robert W. Service 2008
That drunken old bum of a Tavender writes some lunatic nonsense or other to Gafferson, and he's a worse idiot even than Tavender is, and on the strength of what one of these clowns thinks he surmises the other clown means, you go and spend your money,--money I gave you, by the way,--in bringing Tavender over here.
The Market-Place Harold Frederic 2008

Quotes with BUM (3)

Merda! Her lace panties had snagged on his ring, the signet ring he'd inherited from his father, Giacomo Casanova. His father had seduced hundred of women without any problems whatsoever, and he was having trouble with just one. This was the real reason he never used the Casanova name. He could never live up to his father's reputation. The old man was probably laughing in his grave. Nine circles of hell," Jack muttered. Hell?" Lara asked. "I thought I was the Holy Land." You'…
Kerrelyn Sparks Secret Life of a Vampire
And a special thanks for not burning up the whole ship. Including yourself, you daft bum-rag.
Scott Westerfeld Leviathan
Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! Holy! The world is holy! The soul is holy! The skin is holy! The nose is holy! The tongue and cock and handand asshole holy! Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere isholy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's anangel! The bum's as holy as the seraphim! the madman isholy as you my soul are holy! The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice isholy the hearers are holy the ecstasy i…
Allen Ginsberg Howl and Other Poems
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 205 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).