chum

IPA: tʃˈʌm

(dated) A friend; a pal.
(dated) A roommate, especially in a college or university.
(fishing, chiefly Canada, US) A mixture of (frequently rancid) fish parts and blood, dumped into the water as groundbait to attract predator fish, such as sharks.
(pottery) A coarse mould for holding the clay while being worked on a whirler, lathe or manually.
Synonym of chum salmon
A temporary dwelling used by the nomadic Uralic reindeer herders of northwestern Siberia.
A surname.

(intransitive) To share rooms with someone; to live together.
(transitive) To lodge (somebody) with another person or people.
(intransitive) To make friends; to socialize.
(transitive, Scotland, informal) To accompany.
(fishing, transitive, intransitive) To cast chum into the water to attract fish.

Examples of "chum" in Sentences

The proof is in the pudding, chum.
Maybe I will ask an engineer chum.
See CHUM web site for this info...
The other is was the work of a chum.
Enemies of America, you are the chum.
Cool as the proverbial cucumber, chum.
Gilbert's term with CHUM ended in 1977.
CHUM informally referred to these stations as the NewNet.
Fanboy and Chum Chum buried Scampers in a digital pet graveyard.
Don't give the troll anything to gloat over or to show off to his pimply chums.
Then, thinking it was time for Phil to rejoin them, they called their chum's name.
I called my chum and asked him if Murphy was good for a drink, he replied, "Has he got it?"
The lad whom he called his chum, the best of his pals would be gone for ever, in a few hours.
The only thing crueler than that would be to coat them in chum and dump them in the great white shark infested waters off of South Africa.
She used the creature far more than Dorothy, as was natural and right enough; and had mounted it that day to escape what she called her chum's "everlasting fiddling."
The common name chum derives from the Native American Chinook language word for “striped” or “variegated” and is descriptive of the streaks and blotches found on the body of a chum as it nears spawning time.
He questioned me about the fate of the Captain Mironoff, whom he called his chum, and often interrupted me by sententious remarks, which, if they did not prove him to be a man well versed in war, showed his natural intelligence and shrewdness.