1. an intimate friend or companion.
2. to be an intimate friend.
3. to display good-natured friendliness: chummed around with the other teammates.
4. to share the same room, as in a dormitory.
5. bait usually consisting of oily fish ground up and scattered on the water.
6. to fish with such bait.
7. to lure (fish) with such bait.
8. A chum salmon.

1. A friend; a pal.
2. A roommate.
3. to share rooms with; to live together.
4. to make friends with; to socialize.
5. to accompany.
6. A mixture of (frequently rancid) fish parts and blood, dumped into the water to attract predator fish, such as sharks.
7. to cast chum into the water to attract fish.

1. A roommate, especially in a college or university; an old and intimate friend.
2. chopped pieces of fish used as bait.
3. to occupy a chamber with another.

1. to occupy the same room or chambers with another; be the chum of some one.
2. to put into the same room or rooms with another; put into common quarters.
3. formerly, in some english prisons, to receive, as a new inmate, by a rough ceremony of initiation, beating him with staves, etc., and making him pay an entrance-fee, the whole being accompanied by masquerading and music: sometimes used with up.
4. to fish with chum.
5. one who lodges or resides in the same chamber or rooms with another; a room-mate: especially applied to college students.
6. hence an intimate companion; a crony.
7. A bait, consisting usually of pieces of some oily fish, as the menhaden, commonly employed in the capture of bluefish.
8. in ceramics, a block upon which an unbaked vessel is fitted when attached to the lathe to be turned. see thrown-ware, under pottery.
9. A tent; a dwelling.

1. a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities
2. bait consisting of chopped fish and fish oils that are dumped overboard to attract fish
3. a large pacific salmon with small spots on its back; an important food fish