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chum

noun
🔊/tʃʌm/
🔊/tʃʌm/
 (old-fashioned, informal)
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  1. a friend朋友；友人；伙伴
    • an old school chum老校友
    Topics Family and relationshipsc2
    Word Originlate 17th cent. (originally Oxford University slang, denoting a room-mate): probably short for chamber-fellow. Compare with comrade and crony.