chums in English

noun

1

a close friend.

You thought he was your friend, your pal, your chum .

synonyms: friend, companion, intimate, playmate, classmate, schoolmate, workmate, pal, sidekick, crony, main man, mate, buddy, bud, amigo, compadre, homeboy, homegirl, homie, dawg, peeps

2

chopped fish, fish fluids, and other material thrown overboard as angling bait.

Their bland prettiness makes them more enticing as shark chum than as characters, but then a funny thing happens once they're at sea.

3

a large North Pacific salmon that is commercially important as a food fish.

Some of the species that enter freshwater to spawn are western brook lamprey, pacific lamprey, river lamprey, green sturgeon, white sturgeon, pink salmon, chum salmon , coho salmon, and sockeye salmon.

verb

1

be friendly to or form a friendship with someone.

they started chumming around in high school

2

use chum as bait when fishing.

What has struck a nerve with some scientists, says Gruber, is that the Florida ban ‘allows spear fishing and chumming in order to kill sharks, but not diving to learn about sharks.’

noun

friend, companion, intimate, playmate, classmate, schoolmate, workmate, pal, sidekick, crony, main man, mate, buddy, bud, amigo, compadre, homeboy, homegirl, homie, dawg, peeps
chum salmon
sidekick, crony, buddy, pal, brother

Use "chums" in a sentence

1. * “Bowled Bolderby!”, (ss) Chums Jun 18 1921 * The Honour of Pierre Grosjean, (ss) Chums May 7 1921 * Island of Poison Mist, (ss) Chums Aug 20 1921 * Jungle Hoard!, (ss) Chums Sep 10 1921

2. Chummed, Chum·ming, Chums 1

3. * “Bowled Bolderby!”, (ss) Chums Jun 18 1921 * The Honour of Pierre Grosjean, (ss) Chums May 7 1921 * Island of Poison Mist, (ss) Chums Aug 20 1921 * Jungle Hoard!, (ss) Chums Sep 10 1921

4. Chum definition, a close or intimate companion: boyhood Chums

5. Or by Cozying up to old school chums, right?

6. Chummy Chum Chums: Match is a cute and challenging puzzle game

7. Pesci and Glover are longtime chums who win a fishing vacation in Florida.

8. The Outdoor Chums in the Big Woods Quincy Allen The Axman brought down his blade …

9. Verb chum (third-person singular simple present chums, present participle chumming, simple past and past participle Chummed) stemming

10. The Maverick Wallet is the perfect mix of Chums two best-selling wallets, the Outlaw and the Surfshort

11. Her school chums may disagree with her politics but they treat her respectfully and make sure their colleagues do, too.

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13. (3) Barely 12 hours after the final round of the British Open at Blowy , blustery Royal Lytham and the newly-crowned champion and chums were cracking away on the other side of the world

14. A Crony is someone you’ve been friends with or have known for a long time, and it appears to have been a slang term used by British university students and alumni to describe their old chums. Who first used the word ‘Crony’?

15. 1882, Chums, a tale of the queen's navy (volume 1, page 200) To the "Nut" then, with its dirty little smoking-room, clouded with fumes arising from Baccies of every description; curling upwards from the short black Irish clay bowl, full of strong ship's baccy, as well

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