0 a friend:
[ as form of address ] That's all right by me, chum.
1 fish or meat cut into small pieces and thrown from a boat to attract larger fish, for example sharks
2 to throw chum from a boat to attract larger fish, for example sharks:
3 a friend:
They are not there because they are old school chums of the chairman or anything like that.
They did not hand over the railways, which make losses because they are a social service, to their private enterprise chums.
If their chums in the farming community can get their snouts in the trough, that is so much the better for them.
We do not want his former flatmates or his chums from the intelligence community.
If the authority does that, it will be able to appoint its chums.
He is kept in strict confinement, he is allowed only limited opportunities of returning to his chums and home.
They handed over the profitable sections of public industry so that their chums could line their pockets from the profits of those sectors that were making surpluses.
No responsibility for him and, worse still, no posts for his chums.