Definitions for chums

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chums chum

Spelling: [chuhm]

IPA: /tʃʌm/

Chums is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in chums (chmsu).

Definitions for chums

noun

1. a close or intimate companion:
2. a roommate, as at college.
3. cut or ground bait dumped into the water to attract fish to the area where one is fishing.
4. fish refuse or scraps discarded by a cannery.
5. chum salmon.

verb (used with object)

1. to dump chum into (a body of water) so as to attract fish.
2. to lure (fish) with chum:

verb (used without object)

1. to associate closely.
2. to share a room or rooms with another, especially in a dormitory at a college or prep school.
3. to fish by attracting fish by dumping cut or ground bait into the water.

Origin of chums

First recorded in 1675-85; of uncertain origin

Examples for chums

He was wondering whether he had better bring his three chums on the trip.

"You worked that pretty slick," Jim said, as the chums approached him.

Once chums and collaborators, they had irretrievably drifted apart.

Habitually unable to contain his choleric temper, Kennedy cut loose when addressing his former Harvard chums in 1937.

He certainly did enjoy action more than any one of the chums.

Whether out for date night or lunch with chums, the restaurant-hopping first couple exude a heady sense of glamour and excitement.

I saw one of my chums going past the end of the street, sir, and I ran after him.

Frank Roscoe was rather different from his chums, but they were very fond of him.

His chums, coming to the city to pay him a visit, could not find him.

“Cressida has said Kate is not keen on her relationship with Harry,” one of her chums tells the Telegraph's Richard Eden.