Usually means: Engaging in idle or aimless activities.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word bumming:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. bumming: Merriam-Webster
  2. bumming: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bumming: Collins English Dictionary
  4. bumming: Vocabulary.com
  5. Bumming, bumming: Wordnik
  6. bumming: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. bumming: Wiktionary
  8. bumming: Dictionary.com
  9. bumming: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Bumming: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Bumming: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. Bumming: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. bumming: FreeDictionary.org
  14. bumming: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bumming: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bumming: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bumming: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bumming: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See bum as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (bum)

noun:  (informal or childish, chiefly Commonwealth) The buttocks.
noun:  (informal or childish, chiefly Commonwealth) The anus.
verb:  (UK, Ireland, transitive, colloquial) To sodomize; to engage in anal sex.
noun:  (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A homeless person, usually a man.
noun:  (colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A lazy, incompetent, or annoying person, usually a man.
noun:  (colloquial, sports) A player or racer who often performs poorly.
noun:  (colloquial) A drinking spree.
verb:  (transitive, colloquial) To ask someone to give one (something) for free; to beg for something.
verb:  (intransitive, colloquial) To stay idle and unproductive, like a hobo or vagabond.
verb:  (transitive, slang, British) To wet the end of a marijuana cigarette (spliff).
adjective:  (slang) Of poor quality or highly undesirable.
adjective:  (slang) Unfair.
adjective:  (slang) Injured and without the possibility of full repair, defective.
adjective:  (slang) Unpleasant or unhappy.
verb:  To depress; to make unhappy.
noun:  (dated) A humming noise.
verb:  (intransitive) To make a murmuring or humming sound.
noun:  (obsolete) A bumbailiff.
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