- a close or intimate companion: boyhood chums.
- a roommate, as at college.
- to associate closely.
- to share a room or rooms with another, especially in a dormitory at a college or prep school.
- cut or ground bait dumped into the water to attract fish to the area where one is fishing.
- fish refuse or scraps discarded by a cannery.
- to fish by attracting fish by dumping cut or ground bait into the water.
- to dump chum into (a body of water) so as to attract fish.
- to lure (fish) with chum: They chummed the fish with hamburger.
- a close friend
- to be or become an intimate friend (of)
- to accompany
- chopped fish, meal, etc, used as groundbait
- a Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus keta
