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Verb: bum about
Usage: informal
  1. Be lazy or idle
    "Her son is just bumming about around all day";
    - bum [informal], bum around [informal], arse around [Brit, Cdn, informal], arse about [Brit, Cdn, informal], loaf [informal], waste one's time, lounge around, loll, loll around, lounge about, slob [Brit, informal]

Derived forms: bums about, bummed about, bumming about

Type of: idle, laze, slug [informal], stagnate