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n. An intimate friend or companion.

verb-intransitive. To be an intimate friend.

verb-intransitive. To display good-natured friendliness: chummed around with the other teammates.

verb-intransitive. To share the same room, as in a dormitory.

n. Bait usually consisting of oily fish ground up and scattered on the water.

verb-intransitive. To fish with such bait.

v. To lure (fish) with such bait.

n. A chum salmon.

n. A friend; a pal.

n. A roommate.

v. To share rooms with; to live together.

v. To make friends with; to socialize.

v. To accompany.

n. A mixture of (frequently rancid) fish parts and blood, dumped into the water to attract predator fish, such as sharks.

v. To cast chum into the water to attract fish.

n. A roommate, especially in a college or university; an old and intimate friend.

verb-intransitive. To occupy a chamber with another.

n. Chopped pieces of fish used as bait.

n. One who lodges or resides in the same chamber or rooms with another; a room-mate: especially applied to college students.

n. Hence An intimate companion; a crony.

To occupy the same room or chambers with another; be the chum of some one.

To put into the same room or rooms with another; put into common quarters.

Formerly, in some English prisons, to receive, as a new inmate, by a rough ceremony of initiation, beating him with staves, etc., and making him pay an entrance-fee, the whole being accompanied by masquerading and music: sometimes used with up.

n. A bait, consisting usually of pieces of some oily fish, as the menhaden, commonly employed in the capture of bluefish.

To fish with chum.

n. In ceramics, a block upon which an unbaked vessel is fitted when attached to the lathe to be turned. See thrown-ware, under pottery.

n. A tent; a dwelling.

n. a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities

n. bait consisting of chopped fish and fish oils that are dumped overboard to attract fish

n. a large Pacific salmon with small spots on its back; an important food fish

"She used the creature far more than Dorothy, as was natural and right enough; and had mounted it that day to escape what she called her chum's "everlasting fiddling.""

chummed    chumming    chums   

bait    decoy    lure    salmon   

chummed    chumming   

chummed    chumming   

roommate    intimate    cohabit    friend   

Brum    Krum    Mum    alum    become    brum    bum    clum    come    crum   

classmate    sweetheart    playmate    crony    Buddy    roommate    pal    comrade    confidant    colleague