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Chum

noun

A close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities. Synonyms: brother, buddy, crony, pal, sidekick.

Bait consisting of chopped fish and fish oils that are dumped overboard to attract fish.

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

... he's had anything to eat for half an hour," said Mr. Bartlett. "Well, how is my old college chum, Pee-wee? You make her give ...

— Pee-wee Harris on the Trail • Percy Keese Fitzhugh

... Henley to see an old chum of his, but he will be back in good time for dinner. Is it not lovely down here, Mr. Herrick? I thought it would be such a pity to go indoors that I told Deacon that we would have tea here." Then, as ...

— Herb of Grace • Rosa Nouchette Carey

... medical man. He is an old chum of mine, and feels my pulse, and looks at my tongue, and talks about the weather, all for nothing, when I fancy I'm ill; so I thought I would do him a good turn by going to him now. "What a doctor wants," I said, "is practice. ...

— Three Men in a Boa • Jerome K. Jerome

... Billy live a little more on shore than he had hitherto done. "D'ye see, Abel," he observed to his chum, "it's time, to my mind, that he should begin to get his ribs lined with true honest English beef, and sniff up some of the old country's fresh sharp air, and learn to slide and play snowballs, which he can't do out in these hot outlandish parts; ...

— True Blue • W.H.G. Kingston

... gaze went past the chubby figure of his shy sister to another girl who, with her chum, was in the lead of the four tugging at the rope of the gaily painted bobsled. This particular girl's bright and animated countenance smiled back at Walter cordially, and she waved a ...

— Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays • Annie Roe Carr

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