bum
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(satellite adjective) (informal) of very poor quality |
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Synonyms: cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny |
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(verb) ask for and get free; be a parasite |
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Synonyms: cadge, grub, mooch, sponge |
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Related Words: freeload, obtain |
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(noun) a disreputable wanderer |
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Synonyms: hobo, tramp |
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Related Words: bird of passage, dosser, roamer, rover, street person, wanderer |
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(noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on |
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Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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Related Words: body part |
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(noun) person who does no work |
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Synonyms: do-nothing, idler, layabout, loafer |
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Related Words: clock watcher, dallier, dawdler, daydreamer, dillydallier, drone, goldbrick, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goof-off, laggard, lazybones, lie-abed, loon, lounger, mope, ne'er-do-well, nonworker, shirker, slacker, slug, slugabed, sluggard, spiv, sunbather, trifler, woolgatherer |
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(noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible; "only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!" |
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Synonyms: crumb, lowlife, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker |
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Related Words: disagreeable person, unpleasant person |
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