bum n.4
a spree; also as v., to go on a spree.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Four Years at Yale 43: Bum, a spree, society supper, or convivial entertainment of any sort, innocent or otherwise. Used also as a verb; whence is derived bummer, a fast young man, a fellow who bums. | |
| Student Sl. in Cohen (1997) 3: bum […] 2. An excursion, the object of which is fun. | |
| ‘College Words and Phrases’ in DN II:i 25: bum, n. A spree. |
In phrases
1. out on a spree.
| Four Years at Yale 527: It is seldom that a Yale man, while ‘on a bum,’ so far loses his wits as to be unable to reach his room unassisted and instances of arrest by the police of drunken students are almost unheard of. | |
| Hoosier Mosaics 117: I got onto a bum in Jacksonville and spent all my money and everything else but my very oldest suit o’ clothes and my pistol. | |
| Boots And Saddles 193: I intend to celebrate their return by going on a tremendous ‘bum’. | |
| Amer. Sl. Dict. 52: On the bum, on a drunk. |
2. to play truant from school.
| Illinois Crime Survey 1044: Among the children of the neighborhood no shame attached to stealing. ‘Copping’ was a part of their play life. Going ‘on a bum from school’ and pilfering went together. |