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"forms": [
{
"form": "bums around",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "bumming around",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "bummed around",
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"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1974 November 25, “The Original Kojak”, in Time",
"text": "Along the way, he dropped out of sight several times to bum around South America.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To wander around idly to no purpose; to loaf or loiter."
],
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],
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"purpose",
"purpose"
],
[
"loaf",
"loaf"
],
[
"loiter",
"loiter"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive and intransitive, informal) To wander around idly to no purpose; to loaf or loiter."
],
"tags": [
"informal",
"intransitive",
"transitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "loiter",
"word": "rumgammeln"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "loiter",
"word": "vagabondare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "loiter",
"word": "girovagare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "loiter",
"word": "bighellare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "loiter",
"word": "gironzolare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "loiter",
"word": "ciondolare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "loiter",
"word": "indugiare"
}
]
}
],
"word": "bum around"
}
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"forms": [
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"form": "bums around",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
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},
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"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
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"ref": "1974 November 25, “The Original Kojak”, in Time",
"text": "Along the way, he dropped out of sight several times to bum around South America.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To wander around idly to no purpose; to loaf or loiter."
],
"links": [
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"wander",
"wander"
],
[
"idly",
"idle"
],
[
"purpose",
"purpose"
],
[
"loaf",
"loaf"
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"(transitive and intransitive, informal) To wander around idly to no purpose; to loaf or loiter."
],
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"translations": [
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "loiter",
"word": "rumgammeln"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "loiter",
"word": "vagabondare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "loiter",
"word": "girovagare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "loiter",
"word": "bighellare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "loiter",
"word": "gironzolare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "loiter",
"word": "ciondolare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "loiter",
"word": "indugiare"
}
],
"word": "bum around"
}
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