"chum by" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It is often used informally and colloquially to mean "close friend" or "companion." Example: "I've known John since we were kids, he's been my chum by for as long as I can remember."
Witness Trent Lott and the way bloggers turned him from Senate majority leader into political chum by pursuing a story the mainstream media passed on.
It's left to Great White Dope Brody to deliver the fishy finisher, exploding the lethal maneater into chunks of bloody chum by igniting a compressed scuba tank stuck in its maw.
Serum levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) were measured in the Biochemistry Laboratory at Montreal's Hôpital St-Luc (CHUM) by a procedure that includes extraction and quantification by competitive radioimmunoassay using the IDS radioimmunoassay kit (Medicorp Inc., Montreal, QC) [ 35].
As if to stress the point, she bags herself a real Brit: one of Balsan's chums, by the name of Boy Capel (Alessandro Nivola).
They say he done that Diane Abbott once, back in the 70s when she was well fit," offered a young lad to his chums by Camden tube on Thursday.
It makes the movie more tell than show and has the tone of an excited round-robin Christmas letter sent to her chums by a well-heeled, poorly educated American girl after her first holiday in Europe.
Overall setting is a hybrid of college dorm and off-campus apartments: couches are for kicking back, a communal kitchen is for instant noodle prep and staff are often remembered like chums by former guests.
Let David Cameron delight his chums by turning Prime Minister's question time into 10 minutes of Bullingdon Club abuse; Brown has serious work to do, building a society in which the disparities between rich and poor are reduced and opportunities are not limited by privilege and prejudice.
There, Neil wondered why Golding had been photographed at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday, aged 16, with his National Front chums by his side and a pair of knickers on his head.
Last Monday, Caetano Veloso, another Patkin chum, stopped by to preview his new English-language CD on the restaurant's sound system.
He played a wistful boxing coach in Shane Meadows's Twenty Four Seven (1997), and appeared alongside his Long Good Friday co-star, Helen Mirren, in the bittersweet 2001 film of Graham Swift's novel Last Orders, about a group of friends scattering the ashes of their dead chum (played by Caine).
