Bare-bum
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bare-bum
- (literally) With the bum (bottom) exposed, as for a spanking or a mooning.
- (by extension) Stark naked.
- 1992, Louise Leblanc, Maddie in Goal (trans. Sarah Cummins), Formac (1992; original French book published 1991), ISBN 0887802028, page 12:"Of course I do, Gran! Julian is always walking around bare-bum. I know all about boys and girls. And love and babies and all."
- 1992, Martie Sterling, "My Last, Last Run", Ski, April 1992:Having never experienced communal bare-bum soaking European style, I was sure I'd wandered into the men's room.
- 2009, John B. Duffield, A Cry for Help, ISBN 9780578028231, page 21:We discovered trout and bears and foxes. And bees nests! Not to mention how to swim bare-bum down rocky falls.