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Discover LudwigThe phrase "bummed around" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used to describe a state of idleness or aimless wandering, often in a relaxed or carefree manner. Example: "After finishing college, I spent the summer bummed around the city, enjoying the freedom before starting my job."
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After the Armistice, Ross bummed around editorial posts in New York, including a brief stint at Judge, a humor magazine.
The Sunday that I bummed around on my living-room couch, I went over to a friend's house for lunch.
As a young man, he bummed around the Pyrenees.
He has modelled, acted, bummed around France and Italy.
Leter he left for Canada, where he bummed around before arriving in this country.
He attended Harvard and bummed around Europe as what he calls "an inchoate food obsessive".
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For that matter, why is such a blandly intelligent man simply bumming around?
Bumming around, he reckons, has helped him conquer "a psychological state of self-destructive mayhem".
It's the early 1970s and Steve, who's dropped out of college, is bumming around, usually barefoot.
We were just bumming around on the beach enjoying ourselves before university; it was a lot of fun.
He sang of "bumming around, living hand to mouth, sometimes goin' cold and hungry … tryin' to get your spare change".
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