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  • noun Plural form of chum.
  • verb Third person singular simple present of to chum.

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Examples

  • The infamous photo of Dave posing alongside his posho chums from the Bullingdon Club in an expensive royal blue tailcoat is one of the few clues we have.

    Birthday Boy 2009

  • The infamous photo of Dave posing alongside his posho chums from the Bullingdon Club in an expensive royal blue tailcoat is one of the few clues we have.

    Archive 2009-10-01 2009

  • The language used by people like Simm and her ACPO chums is deeply sinister and indeed Orwellian.

    Hayley Adamson is dead but Northumbria wins Gold! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • Si Peters and Wash Crosby were evidently alarmed at the turn affairs had taken, and they called their chums around them for consultation.

    The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview Ralph Bonehill

  • "We met quite by chance, but we quickly became friends -- what in my country we call chums -- and we have been inseparable ever since."

    The Net Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

  • And he's fond of parading his celebrity 'chums' - Chris Evans, anyone?

    Home 2010

  • And he's fond of parading his celebrity 'chums' - Chris Evans, anyone?

    Home 2010

  • He would have us all be boot cleaners and butt lickers so that his chums could be the only ones with hope.

    You need the "1984" code book to realize that W dreams the bottom 99% would aspire only to a futureless life. 2008

  • The kings were the biggest, handsomest fish and definitely the main event, but I also liked the chums a.k.a. dog salmon for their unlikely hideousness.

    Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008

  • The kings were the biggest, handsomest fish and definitely the main event, but I also liked the chums a.k.a. dog salmon for their unlikely hideousness.

    Fool’s Paradise John Gierach 2008

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