chum
1a close or intimate companion: boyhood chums.
Older Use. a roommate, as at college.
to associate closely.
Older Use. to share a room or rooms with another, especially in a dormitory at a college or prep school.
Origin of chum
1Other definitions for chum (2 of 3)
cut or ground bait dumped into the water to attract fish to the area where one is fishing.
fish refuse or scraps discarded by a cannery.
to fish by attracting fish by dumping cut or ground bait into the water.
to dump chum into (a body of water) so as to attract fish.
to lure (fish) with chum: They chummed the fish with hamburger.
Origin of chum
2Other definitions for chum (3 of 3)
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How to use chum in a sentence
Once chums and collaborators, they had irretrievably drifted apart.
Doug Kenney: The Odd Comic Genius Behind ‘Animal House’ and National Lampoon | Robert Sam Anson | March 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“Cressida has said Kate is not keen on her relationship with Harry,” one of her chums tells the Telegraph's Richard Eden.
Is Kate Middleton Trying to Block Cressida And Harry's Marriage Plans? | Tom Sykes | September 11, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHabitually unable to contain his choleric temper, Kennedy cut loose when addressing his former Harvard chums in 1937.
“The Patriarch”: Joseph Kennedy Sr.’s Outsized Life | Jacob Heilbrunn | November 21, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTI offer this judgment based on years of interviewing others close to Jack Kennedy—school chums, war buddies, life-long friends.
Whether out for date night or lunch with chums, the restaurant-hopping first couple exude a heady sense of glamour and excitement.
The chums did not have to go even as far as the brow of the hill overlooking the group of houses before mentioned.
The Campfire Girls of Roselawn | Margaret PenroseThrough the falling rain the chums were sure that 68 something was moving down by the woods.
The Campfire Girls of Roselawn | Margaret PenroseThe chums drove their craft up the lake and in half an hour sighted the Norwood place and its roses.
The Campfire Girls of Roselawn | Margaret PenroseDarry and Burd were planning another trip on the Marigold, and so had little time to give to the girl chums of Roselawn.
The Campfire Girls of Roselawn | Margaret PenroseThe chums liked Mark Stratford and they did not believe that he was anywhere near as “sporty” as Burd had intimated.
The Campfire Girls of Roselawn | Margaret Penrose
British Dictionary definitions for chum (1 of 3)
/ (tʃʌm) /
informal a close friend
(intr usually foll by up with) to be or become an intimate friend (of)
(tr) Scot to accompany: I'll chum you home
Origin of chum
1British Dictionary definitions for chum (2 of 3)
/ (tʃʌm) /
angling, mainly US and Canadian chopped fish, meal, etc, used as groundbait
Origin of chum
2British Dictionary definitions for chum (3 of 3)
/ (tʃʊm) /
a Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus keta
Origin of chum
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