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chum

/chuhm/US // tʃʌm //UK // (tʃʌm) //

老兄,小伙子,小伙子们

Related Words

crony朋党,朋辈,团伙,朋克comrade同志,同伴,伙伴,同志们buddy老兄playmate玩伴,游伴,伙伴,伴侣associate联系,联想,联谊会,联系我们pal悸动,伙伴,掌声,伙伴们mate伴侣,伙伴,朋友,配偶companion同伴,伴侣,伙伴,同行sis妹妹,姐姐,姐妹,姊妹bro兄弟,兄弟俩,兄弟们,兄弟俩人

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a close or intimate companion: boyhood chums.
    • : Older Use. a roommate, as at college.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    chummed, chum·ming.

    • : to associate closely.
    • : Older Use. to share a room or rooms with another, especially in a dormitory at a college or prep school.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounfriend
Synonyms
buddy老兄comrade同志,同伴,伙伴,同志们crony朋党,朋辈,团伙,朋克playmate玩伴,游伴,伙伴,伴侣associate联系,联想,联谊会,联系我们companion同伴,伴侣,伙伴,同行mate伴侣,伙伴,朋友,配偶pal悸动,伙伴,掌声,伙伴们sis妹妹,姐姐,姐妹,姊妹bro兄弟,兄弟俩,兄弟们,兄弟俩人co-mate同伴,共同伙伴,同事,同伴们

Examples

  • During the past few months, Microsoft Exchange servers have been like chum in a shark-feeding frenzy.

  • He trained a $17,000 horse he dubbed “The Fish” for his wavy thinness, the 1998 near-Triple Crown winner Real Quiet, for the chum who helped him into thoroughbreds, the McDonald’s-franchises owner Mike Pegram.

  • Orphaned by the time she was 12, Eleanor had been long told that she was homely and plain but school chums knew her as a caring girl with a sharp mind.

  • The difference is that options trading has a starker win-lose dynamic, one where amateurs are chum for the veterans.

  • Those people will dial up their old chum at the Senator's office and demand to know why the Medicare actuaries want them to die.

  • When a chum updates his status, a little yellow badge in the edge alerts you.

  • The control, the power, the ownership of the show, all resided with others, including his old chum Fuller.

  • The most entertaining of the latter came from John Culver, a former senator from Iowa and a college chum of Kennedy's.

  • Bobby attended this institution of learning with his particular chum and the boys had no end of good times.

  • The formula for the date of its foundation in 1636 may be thus expressed—Harvard College founded; the chum age .

  • On the broken porch of the abandoned house Amy stopped and waited for her chum to overtake her.

  • Her chum leaned against the door jamb while peal after peal of laughter shook her.

  • Her chum came leaping up the hill behind her, having moored the canoe with one hitch.

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