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    1. Our little chum was killed on purpose, meant as a threat for me


    2. He is a real chum


    3. I was at The Benbow one night when a good chum walked in


    4. “One of them the one on the left is asking for help from his friend and his chum on the right is asking for his mother to help him


    5. “Well we have to go back you know that I feel the same way about Helen as you do about Mabel but you know the penalty for going AWOL on active service its death old chum and don’t you forget it just think were she would be then


    6. In the afternoon Esther came to see her chum, and to take her home with


    7. He glanced to his watch: three-twenty! Beth must be in a panic! “Yogi,” he said to his new chum, “you have to make a phone call for me


    8. Jerry had gone into the gallery to sit with a chum and the Blythe girls had taken Una with them


    9. “You know it now, chum, but wait ‘till you’ve been here a little longer


    10. town where his old college chum, James Matheson, resided and

    11. If a man treats a woman like a chum, she thinks he wants to sleep with her, and vice versa


    12. " In view of the fact that John came nearer to being the chum of Jesus than any other earth mortal, that he was his chosen personal representative in so many matters, it is not strange that he should have come to regard himself as the "disciple whom Jesus loved" since he most certainly knew he was the disciple whom Jesus so frequently trusted


    13. nations with a school chum who had turned out to be a devout Roman Catholic


    14. I was cast o'er board like a bucket o' chum, and that fish plucked me out the mist and swallowed me in a gulp


    15. “Chance? That fish knew exactly what it was doing, else it would have crunched me in those unfriendly jaws and made chum of me – instead he gulped me down whole


    16. “Well, if they do, they ain’t tellin’ us, chum


    17. “I didn’t tell you about it, chum, because I wanted to make sure it could be done, and that I could do it without your help


    18. “You remember that I told our chum Alistair Vaughan at the Bank of England about the recent unexplained blips?”


    19. “As it happens, I had nothing to report then, anyway,” said Robin, “but I’ve just had an excited phone call from a chum of mine in Bulawayo, and I thought you might be interested


    20. But I’d better try to get hold of your chum at the embassy

    21. “One of the chaps on the International Clearing computer section has been heard in the gents boasting to a chum that he doesn’t really need to work, since he has plenty put by for a rainy day - or words to that effect


    22. “Your Defence Attache chum is just the bloke to handle this


    23. “Not a word,” she said, “but I have managed to persuade an old chum of mine – ex Military Police – to let me have a quiet and unofficial look, if he can get hold of them from the vaults where the archives are stored


    24. “Bill, old chum, tell us more about this envelope


    25. “The significance is,” proffered Nick Marsden, “that your chum Father Sean Doyle was a double agent


    26. had joined the ‘team’ he confirmed she was a family friend: ‘She’s a good chum to Caroline


    27. Understanding what Joel wanted her to do, Henrietta sat down on the sofa beside Kathy, and struck up a conversation with her, hoping it would distract her college chum from what was taking place across the room


    28. After a moment, Henri quietly pulled the rocking chair over to the side of the bed and sat down beside her college chum


    29. And now here we are…” Her voice trailed off, as she also remembered the reason why Henrietta was there, which had resulted in this unexpected reunion with her college chum


    30. “Neo and your other pets are okay - just look over there…” Kathy turned and gazed in the direction her college chum was pointing

    31. On the phone Pappas had said, "You're holdin' out on me, chum


    32. Throughout the hour she chatted away like an old chum, mentioning


    33. I decided to have a casual word with his Form Teacher, Dawn Miller, who I regard as a chum


    34. "Well!" said his friend Stryver, "you take it more easily than I fancied you would, and are less mercenary on my behalf than I thought you would be; though, to be sure, you know well enough by this time that your ancient chum is a man of a pretty strong will


    35. He had been my greatest chum


    36. Having despatched The Avenger to the coffee-house for an addition to the dinner, I felt that I must open my breast that very evening to my friend and chum


    37. That was why they had chosen to ride in Nimrod's brake - because they wished to chum up with him as much as possible, in order to increase their chances of being kept on in preference to others who were not so respectable


    38. Pardon? Seen him today at a runefal? Chum o' yourn passed in his checks? Ludamassy! Pore piccaninnies! Thou'll no be telling me thot, Pold veg! Did ums blubble bigsplash crytears cos fren Padney was took off in black bag? Of all de darkies Massa Pat was verra best


    39. thought he was a chum


    40. He just walks into the house, pays no attention to anyone else, and hollers out: "Where's my chum Johnjohn?" and Johnjohn comes tumbling downstairs and off they go into the spinney together and play for hours

    41. "I had it from a party who was an old chum of Bulstrode's


    42. First, Obregon declared his old chum Venustiano Carranza President (well, officially ‘First Chief’ but everyone knew that meant President) of Mexico


    43. Once Hal entered the market, he was trading with sharks, and he was the fish chum


    44. He was always smiling and laughing and being a good chum, although no one smiled or laughed back


    45. He held my gaze for only a moment, his mouth wide, as if he had just seen an old school chum


    46. And the old man thrust his feet in the stirrups to chum them up, around, and down; up, around, and down; as the rear wheels, provoked, did likewise, up, down, around, with a lovely hum, fastened in place on the platform planks


    47. "To Save His Chum, " she read aloud


    48. She was, in a sense, losing her dear old chum; Diana's new home would be two miles from Green Gables, and the old constant companionship could never be theirs again


    49. On the accompanying card was written, "With all good wishes from your old chum, Gilbert


    50. "My chum lives here," Bruin grunts out




















    1. They had done as their parents and their parents’ parents had done before them, and the people they chummed around with had faithfully followed the exact same societal path that had been set out for them too


    2. Farther below, he counted seven, white-tipped reef sharks quickening their pace, just as the chummed water started filtering through their keen receptors


    3. “We chummed about


    4. Easton had chummed up with a lot of the regular customers at the `Cricketers', where he now spent most of his spare time, drinking beer, telling yarns or playing shove-ha'penny or hooks and rings


    5. On the way across Channel with a Blighty in 1917 I chummed up with a wounded Cockney member of the Sussex


    1. the New York media weaseled in, chumming a wise guy-hungry TV


    2. Unfortunately, after a few more beers, he’d begin chumming the waters for


    1. became a bosom chums during the social whirl of the nineteen fifties and all that


    2. They were especially keen to send their tomatoes to the restaurants run by their celebrity chef chums in the bustling centres of expensive consumer consumption that shined amid the phantom lights of the capital city


    3. her chums at the local park, her mother called out to her


    4. tomatoes to the restaurants run by their celebrity chef chums in the


    5. I know how these old chums are


    6. He looked pained, but as a young seaman, he wasn’t about to deny his chums some sport


    7. Later, she had seen her huddled in the shadows on the balcony with Gene Frazer, talking with him too as though they were old chums, and Sylvia told of her lunch in Limon with the politician Gordon Edward, appearing there as his friend’s date


    8. We spent some time reminiscing about old school chums, good times and bad times


    9. Miss Cornelia was up at Ingleside, holding agonized conclave with Anne and Susan, and Mary hoped that the session might be a long one, for it was all of two weeks since she had been allowed to revel with her chums in the dear valley of rainbows


    10. They were to be chums from that friendly hour and Walter knew that he would never be frightened of the minister again

    11. Nowhere else in the world were there such chums as the Blythes


    12. Her little heart had been wrung when they had left Maywater--she had shed many bitter tears when she parted with Maywater chums and the old manse there where her mother had lived and died


    13. And all her chums went to the kitten's funeral and helped her bury it--only they couldn't bury its poor little paws with it, because they couldn't find them


    14. He was glad that his children had such chums as the Blythes--glad that they had so wise and gay and tender a friend as Mrs


    15. my online chums about how to crack the thing


    16. “Michael, what is the only way that Aguero and his chums can force their way in here?”


    17. While her chums appeared to be oblivious, she knew that the guy with his pants down standing at the gate to the park path should be avoided


    18. I figured this guy would’ve been chums with Jeff


    19. And I’m chums with the big


    20. First by bus where he entertained his new found chums by extracting from his trousers the penis of the relief driver who snored throughout, oblivious to the world

    21. Old chums suddenly wanted to be his buddy again when he had a girl


    22. For the past 10 years old chums from mid-


    23. We did however still have a few kilometres to do to break that record (well, a few tens of thousands actually) and ridiculously helpful as Geza and his chums were, they drew the line at finishing the trip for us while we lounged around Geza's flat guzzling another gargantuan pile of comfort food


    24. Devoted advocates spread the word to their friends, relatives and office chums


    25. Nothing wrong with ‘electric whiskers’ and his chums, of course, but ‘Grudge’ would certainly strengthen Oxford’s position in the computer world


    26. So far as I can see, all the corporation’s accounts are just about bursting at the seams, so you should be able to provide Sergei and his chums with a just settlement


    27. “I rent a couple of rooms near the office during the week, but I have a small house in the country near Portsmouth, where I still have a few Navy chums


    28. Can you get your chums to renew their efforts to get on to those two issues as a matter of urgency? In terms of the car, we want every airport and sea port car park checked, including small airfields, and secluded harbours round the coast


    29. “No offence, or anything, but I can chat direct to all my chums on this without bothering anyone else


    30. went into a bar where he met some new chums

    31. “Real chums they are too


    32. chums with which to indulge my taste for adventure


    33. So, the drink flowed, and Kate had an audience of all her chums, and she was in fine form


    34. With only a dozen chums, you will find that most


    35. "We're old chums, whales and I, and I couldn't mistake their little ways


    36. Bertha Supple told that once to Edy Boardman, a deliberate lie, when she was black out at daggers drawn with Gerty (the girl chums had of course their little tiffs from time to time like the rest of mortals) and she told her not to let on whatever she did that it was her that told her or she'd never speak to her again


    37. It was still hauntingly beautiful, though, which was more than could be said for the dissonant sounds being produced by Arnold Schoenberg and his musical chums in Vienna


    38. "Just as if you were old chums


    39. "We wouldn't mind the crowd, would we, chums?" asked the older man, not looking at his friends


    40. We must have rain, or possibly, snow, or perish—right, chums?"

    41. "Port-au-Prince," said one of the chums


    42. "A sprint?" said Snell-Orkney and his chums


    43. And we were left stranded in a great mausoleum that echoed with the laughter of school chums now incinerated or, if still alive, wielding crutches and piloting wheelchairs


    44. They lay hand in hand, dear chums most dearly met, eyes shut, drinking the silence, dressed only by the late sunlight and the weather, and at last she said: “How would you like to live a few hundred years? Or,” she added, “forever, whichever comes first


    45. Stella Maynard had been one of their chums at Queen's Academy and had been teaching school ever since


    46. My two college chums and I want to keep house next year instead of boarding, so we are looking for a little place to rent; and when I saw that this house was to let I was so happy


    47. "Better a dinner of herbs where your chums are than a stalled ox in a lonely boardinghouse


    48. "Oh, Phil's a dear to rattle round with and be chums


    49. At that time his college chums asked him for money for a common cause


    50. In the party were two inseparable chums, one from Bow and one from Harrow




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    Synonyms for "chum"

    chum chum salmon oncorhynchus keta brother buddy crony pal sidekick acquaintance friend familiar confidant playmate

    "chum" definitions

    a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities


    bait consisting of chopped fish and fish oils that are dumped overboard to attract fish


    a large Pacific salmon with small spots on its back; an important food fish