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Chum

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1884, OED Evaluation: N/A

To become intimate, be on friendly terms with (someone).

ExampleMeaning
Yeah oh- I didn't chum with her or anything 'cause she- she ah had originally gone to another school and- and-that.
To become intimate, be on friendly terms with (someone).
ExampleMeaning
Ah, ah yeah, he lived beside ah, he was down beside a small apartment building down there. And we had a- a friend of ours that we chummed with, happened to live next door.
To become intimate, be on friendly terms with (someone).
ExampleMeaning
Half of our- the people we chummed around- nobody had vehicles that- my dad did have a vehicle just shortly after he was married, and then, when that broke down, he never bothered to- to ever buy another one, eh?
To become intimate, be on friendly terms with (someone).
And I think most of my friends, I think three-quarters of the girls I chummed around with were Finn.
To become intimate, be on friendly terms with (someone).
ExampleMeaning
I-- in- in the class, and we- and we all ch-- we all chummed around together.
To become intimate, be on friendly terms with (someone).
Gang that- we chummed around together. We all- we all played sports together.
To become intimate, be on friendly terms with (someone).
ExampleMeaning
Not the gangs that I turned out with- ch-- chummed out with.
To become intimate, be on friendly terms with (someone).
ExampleMeaning
I ch-- there was one French fellow there I chummed around with him t-- quite a while but he passed away too
To become intimate, be on friendly terms with (someone).
ExampleMeaning
I used to chum around with the guy with the hot rod.
To become intimate, be on friendly terms with (someone).
ExampleMeaning
So we chummed around a lot.
To become intimate, be on friendly terms with (someone).
ExampleMeaning
And the Eltons were- ah was their daughter that my mom was- chummed around with.
To become intimate, be on friendly terms with (someone).
ExampleMeaning
Him and I used to chum together all the time.
To become intimate, be on friendly terms with (someone).
And I missed him because I was in Peterborough and I- I couldn't chum with him because he was in Port-Hope.
To become intimate, be on friendly terms with (someone).
We all chummed together, all worked in the same place.
To become intimate, be on friendly terms with (someone).
ExampleMeaning
Maybe, they- they had chummed together all their lives
To become intimate, be on friendly terms with (someone).
ExampleMeaning
Walker and Era and I- the four of us used to chum together all the time.
To become intimate, be on friendly terms with (someone).
ExampleMeaning
My dad used to go and pick his dad up and they'd go to dances before I ever knew who they were. They chummed together.
To become intimate, be on friendly terms with (someone).
ExampleMeaning
Oh, just these girls had just chummed together and didn't bother or didn't like anybody-
To become intimate, be on friendly terms with (someone).
ExampleMeaning
Yeah, so- ah ah he was- he didn't use to ah, he wasn't enthusiastic about hockey until I started playing peewee and bantam and then he kind of- he would chum with the other fathers and they were kind of get-- interested in it.
To become intimate, be on friendly terms with (someone).
ExampleMeaning
He had two boys that were just about the same age as I was so we all chummed back and forth so I probably knew him better than- than any of them because I used to go to their place and chum with them- back and forth with the boys eh?
To become intimate, be on friendly terms with (someone).