Bums

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English

Proper noun

Bums

  1. (baseball) Nickname of the Brooklyn Dodgers, later the Los Angeles Dodgers.
    • 1951 October 2, “VOICE OF FLATBUSH GOES UP AND DOWN; Loud Shouts of Morning Fall to …”, in New York Times:
      The folks were quite happy about Sunday's thrilling reprieve in Philadelphia and happily confident that "d' Bums'll moider dem Jints"
    • 2007, Curt Smith, The Voice: Mel Allen's Untold Story, page 111:
      To his credit, Allen could not imagine the Jints or Bums unabiding on New York's behalf. "New York is fully capable of supporting three clubs."
    • 2000, G. Richard McKelvey, The MacPhails: Baseball's First Family of the Front Office, page 38:
      The faithful cheered loudly for their beloved Bums; they jeered loudly at the others teams, especially if they were the hated "Jints" from the Polo Grounds.
    • 2001, G. Richard McKelvey, The Bounce: Baseball Teams' Great Falls and Comebacks, page 100:
      The Polo Grounds, which had been the site of many fierce battles between the "Jints" and the "Bums," was not friendly to the home team.

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East Central German

Noun

Bums

  1. (Erzgebirgisch) a fart

References

2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch, 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 27:

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bʊms/
  • (file)

Noun

Bums m (strong, genitive Bumses, plural Bumse)

  1. a jolt, a biff, thud, an unsharp impact or sound
  2. a shag, a boink, a hump, a lay, a completed occasion or act of sexual intercourse
  3. fuckery, wass, jazz, a collection of matters serving ennui
    von dem ganzen Bums
    about all of that wass

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