Meaning

The buttocks..

Definitions by Sense

1. The buttocks.
2. The anus.
3. (East Midlands, slang, vulgar) An act of anal sex.
4. (UK, Ireland, transitive, colloquial) To sodomize; to engage in anal sex.
5. (UK, Ireland, childish, euphemistic) An expression of annoyance.
6. (sometimes derogatory) A homeless person, usually a man.
7. (by extension, also sometimes derogatory) A lazy, incompetent, or annoying person, usually a man.
8. (sports) A player or racer who often performs poorly.

Example Sentences

Okay, everyone sit on your bum and try and touch your toes.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:bum.

John said that when he was little he stuck his finger in his bum and tasted his poopies and it was good.

What could the man possibly be hiding up his bum anyway?

Do you have intercourse (i.e., Do you penetrate your partner in the vagina or anus [bum]? Or does your partner penetrate your vagina or anus [bum])?

[…] and said Daddy had put a finger up her bum.

Go for a bum

Your bars are fake and my bars are real; / Is it true you got bummed on a field?

Word Forms

• bums
• bumming
• bummed
• bummer
• bummest

Synonyms for bum

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When Should You Use Bum?

Use bum when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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