choom
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of choom
1915–20; facetious respelling of chum 1, with -oo- representing English Midlands pronunciation of the vowel
Example Sentences
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There’s room for choom, and all that jazz.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 5, 2014
Seeing a Light Horseman passing along the main sap, and wearing the distinctive head-dress, he hailed him—"Say, choom, be them kangaroo feathers in your 'at?"
From The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula by Collett, Herbert Brayley
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