Usually means: Friends, often in close association.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word chums:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. chums: Merriam-Webster
  2. chums, chums, chums: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chums: Collins English Dictionary
  4. chums: Vocabulary.com
  5. Chum's, Chums, chum's, chums: Wordnik
  6. chums: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Chums, chums: Wiktionary
  8. chums: Dictionary.com
  9. chums: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Chums (paper), Chums: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. chums: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. chums: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. CHUMS: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. chums: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Chums: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Chum)

noun:  (dated) A friend; a pal.
noun:  (dated) A roommate, especially in a college or university.
verb:  (intransitive) To share rooms with someone; to live together.
verb:  (transitive) To lodge (somebody) with another person or people.
verb:  (intransitive) To make friends; to socialize.
verb:  (transitive, Scotland, informal) To accompany.
noun:  (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.
verb:  (fishing, ambitransitive) To cast chum into the water to attract fish.
noun:  (pottery) A coarse mould for holding the clay while being worked on a whirler, lathe or manually.
noun:  Synonym of chum salmon
noun:  A temporary dwelling used by the nomadic Uralic reindeer herders of northwestern Siberia.
noun:  A surname.
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