bums
Wanderers seeking handouts
Bums are buttocks, especially in British English: Get off your bum.
In American English, a bum is a vagrant or homeless person, or more broadly anyone seen as lazy or worthless: a beach bum, the guy's a total bum.
To bum something is to obtain it by begging or mooching: Can I bum a cigarette?
To bum around is to idle or wander aimlessly.
As an adjective, bum means defective or worthless: a bum knee, a bum deal.
Itinerant without fixed address
- drifterAimless, rootless traveler
- vagabondHomeless, aimless wanderer
- transientTemporary, soon departing
- panhandlerOne who begs publicly
beggar · homeless · destitute · down-and-out · indigent · itinerant · mendicant · squatter
Idle responsibility evader
- layaboutHabitually idle person
- idlerHabitually unproductive person
- freeloaderOne exploiting others' generosity
- deadbeatPerson avoiding owed payments
good-for-nothing · ne'er-do-well · slouch · lazybones · loafer · moocher · shirker · wastrel
rear
Back portion or raise
posterior · rump · booty · derriere · cheeks · seat · tush · fanny · glutes · gluteus
hobo
Itinerant without fixed address
- drifterAimless, rootless traveler
- vagabondHomeless, aimless wanderer
- transientTemporary, soon departing
panhandler · beggar · homeless · destitute · down-and-out · indigent · itinerant · mendicant · squatter · unhoused
slacker
Idle responsibility evader
- layaboutHabitually idle person
- idlerHabitually unproductive person
- freeloaderOne exploiting others' generosity
deadbeat · good-for-nothing · ne'er-do-well · slouch · lazybones · loafer · moocher · shirker · wastrel · sluggard
mooch
Obtain by begging
beg · freeload · borrow · leech · wheedle · hustle · solicit · blag
- slackersslackers, loafers, idlers, idler, layabouts
- layaboutsslacker, slackers, deadbeat, deadbeats, loafer
- outcastsoutcast, pariah, pariahs, outcasts, outlaws
- homelessnesshomeless, homeless shelters, unhoused, homeless veterans, houseless
- nonearnersunemployed, retirees, pensioners, homemakers, housewives
bumsworkers
People doing jobs
breadwinners · wage earners · professionals · employees · working people
bumselites
Privileged powerful groups
aristocrats · tycoons · magnates · socialites · homeowners
bumsgo-getters
Ambitiously proactive people
achievers · hustlers · strivers · dynamos · overachievers
- bummed outSlangily disappointed or sad
- beach bumCasual coastal idler
- bumming aroundIdling without purpose
- bum aroundPass time idly
- bum outDisappoint or discourage informally
- bum rapUnjust accusation, informally