bumming

And many of our listeners have told us, they're kind of bumming out, too.

Stages of Grief for the 'BPP': Denial 2008

That was in the days when they called it "bumming," you know.

Oral History Interview with Arthur Little, December 14, 1979. Interview H-0132. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1979

You are always "bumming" cigarettes and I won't stand for it anymore. '

The Rules of Attraction Ellis, Bret Easton 1963

John Davis coolly sat on a powder-keg from which the top had been shot off, and was so found by an officer, who hastily censured him for his loafing -- "bumming" during recess.

The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams

Work he will not under any circumstances, but subsists on the hospitality of the whites until he has entirely worn it out and then removes to the natives, mushing from camp to camp and "bumming" his way as he goes.

Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska Hudson Stuck 1891

It turns out, in this age of consumerism and gadgetry, that all this stuff we buy isn't really making us any happier -- in fact, it's kind of bumming us out.

TreeHugger 2010

"Enjoyed your article, very amusing, us Scots with our 'bumming' ..."

The Daily Record - Home 2010

There was actually one thing that I heard going into this movie that was kind of bumming me out.

Branded in the 80s! 2010

There was actually one thing that I heard going into this movie that was kind of bumming me out.

Branded in the 80s! 2009

Following the accusations of homophobia levelled at the sketch show, here lesbianism is largely confined to extras tickling tonsils in the background while Fletch's fear of 'bumming' is just one more instance of crass, sniggering dialogue in a script that's wretched with it.

Chortle News RSS 2009