Bums

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.

• MBUs, USMB

Bums

1. (Erzgebirgisch) a fart

• IPA^(key): /bʊms/

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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

• bumsen

• Rums
• Wums