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Chum   /tʃəm/   Listen
Chum

noun
1.
A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities.  Synonyms: brother, buddy, crony, pal, sidekick.
2.
Bait consisting of chopped fish and fish oils that are dumped overboard to attract fish.
3.
A large Pacific salmon with small spots on its back; an important food fish.  Synonyms: chum salmon, Oncorhynchus keta.



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"Chum" Quotes from Famous Books



... as you can. And when you've found him tell him that his old chum, Spider Reilly, is here, with the rest of his crowd. And now I'd better be getting up on to my perch. Off you go, Pugsy, my son, and don't take a week ...
— The Prince and Betty - (American edition) • P. G. Wodehouse

... "Poor Madie," soothed her chum. "Let us sit right down here and diagnose the case. I'm first rate at diagnosing anything but why my bureau can't stay fixed. It has chronic upsettedness, and all my operations are of no avail. There go the girls down into the hazel nut gully. Let's sit on this lovely mossy couch, and look ...
— The Girl Scout Pioneers - or Winning the First B. C. • Lillian C Garis

... we'll beat those old Boy Scouts easily when we have that field day, Bessie," said Dolly Ransom to her chum, Bessie King. "Look at the way we beat them in the ...
— The Camp Fire Girls in the Mountains - or Bessie King's Strange Adventure • Jane L. Stewart

... our guests that we will sit at table till the evening. There will be Bixiou, your old official chum du Tillet, Lousteau, Vernisset, Leon de Lora, Vernou, all the wittiest men in Paris, who will not know that we are married. We will play them a little trick, we will get just a little tipsy, and Lisbeth must join us. I want her to study matrimony; Bixiou shall make ...
— Cousin Betty • Honore de Balzac

... number of pelts he would secure, and amongst them perhaps a silver fox. He would let the mail boat doctor sell them for him, and then they would be rich, and Emily would go to the hospital, and be his merry, laughing little chum again. How happy they would all be! Bob was young and an optimist, and no thought of failure entered ...
— Ungava Bob - A Winter's Tale • Dillon Wallace


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