Synonyms of bums

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noun (1)

plural of bum

as in cheeks

the part of the body upon which someone sits

I decided to get off my bum and get some exercise

Synonyms & Similar Words

• cheeks
• seats
• tails
• rumps
• behinds
• fannies
• butts
• backsides
• buns
• buttocks
• bottoms
• posteriors
• tushes
• duffs
• cans
• breeches
• haunches
• heinies
• hams
• keisters
• nates
• booties
• hunkers
• cabooses
• rears
• derrieres
• rear ends
• derrières
• tail ends
• fundaments
• beams
• sterns
• keesters
• moons

bums

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noun (2)

plural of bum

1

as in hobos

an idle worthless person

if you expect an allowance, you have to do some chores and stop being such a bum

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hobos
• beggars
• derelicts
• hoboes
• dodgers
• vagrants
• slackers
• no-goods
• no-accounts
• good-for-nothings
• tramps
• no-goodniks
• do-nothings
• ne'er-do-wells
• drifters
• vagabonds
• panhandlers
• transients
• waifs
• urchins
• ragamuffins
• shirkers
• paupers
• loafers
• idlers
• roamers
• sluggards
• sundowners
• down-and-outers
• indigents
• slouches
• goldbricks
• slugs
• lazybones
• down-and-outs
• drones
• gamines

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• successes
• winners

2

as in beggars

a homeless wanderer who may beg or steal for a living

I feel sorry for bums and occasionally give them money

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hobos
• beggars
• hoboes
• tramps
• vagrants
• vagabonds
• transients
• derelicts
• swagmen
• swaggies
• drifters
• sundowners
• bummers
• dodgers
• panhandlers
• mendicants
• bindle stiffs
• urchins
• waifs
• stiffs
• roamers
• shirkers
• slackers
• ragamuffins
• malingerers
• gamines

bums

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verb

present tense third-person singular of bum

as in lounges

to spend time doing nothing

spent most of the summer just bumming around the house

Synonyms & Similar Words

• lounges
• lazies
• loafs
• lazes
• chills
• strolls
• rests
• plays
• goofs (off)
• lolls
• kicks back
• fools
• dawdles
• idles
• messes
• hangs (around or out)
• kills time
• pokes
• hangs about
• drones
• monkeys
• relaxes
• hacks (around)
• footles
• dillydallies
• mucks
• veges out
• dallies
• lingers
• twiddles one's thumbs
• vegges out
• kicks around
• piddles
• loiters
• aestivates
• fiddles (around)
• dozes
• trifles
• estivates
• lags
• hibernates
• saunters
• swans
• potters (around)
• putters (around)
• truants
• ambles
• malingers
• goldbricks
• moseys
• tarries
• furloughs

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• slaves
• humps
• works
• sweats
• pegs
• plows
• plugs
• hustles
• grubs
• grinds
• labors
• toils
• plods
• drudges
• applies
• buckles (down)
• travails
• moils
• exerts
• puts out