Definition for
chum
– To occupy the same room or chambers with another; be the chum of some one.
– To put into the same room or rooms with another; put into common quarters.
– 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.
noun – A bait, consisting usually of pieces of some oily fish, as the menhaden, commonly employed in the capture of bluefish.
noun – One who lodges or resides in the same chamber or rooms with another; a room-mate: especially applied to college students.
noun – Hence An intimate companion; a crony.
– To fish with chum.
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