No it doesn't. I've never heard "bum" to mean the verb you imply, in America.
It can still mean borrow.
"fag" obviously has different meanings, but the phrase just wouldn't parse for most Americans.
It can still mean borrow.
"fag" obviously has different meanings, but the phrase just wouldn't parse for most Americans.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/verbification
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_(word_formation)#Ve...
and also, though it is attributed to UK
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bum
Verb:
bum (present participle bumming, past participle bummed)
(UK, transitive, colloquial) To sodomize; to engage in anal sex.At least you've lived around. One of the things that amazed me when I first came to and was traveling the US is seeing Americans in one state say some phrase, only to go to another state and have those Americans claim it was never said in America.
People really like to absolutely generalize based o their ow necessarily limited experiences.
I didn't intend my comment to mean it doesn't exist, more that if it does, it's probably a very regional thing, based on not having heard it in the various cities I've lived in.
"I was broke, so I bummed around Oklahoma for a few weeks..."
Kerouac's On The Road might be a good example.
But 99% of the time I hear "bum a ride" or "bum a smoke" and I have never heard a third (verb) meaning in America.
I'll disagree about it being rare; I hear the phrase at least a few times per week (I work in a place where people frequently ask other people for rides, so perhaps that's relevant)
The other day I realized I hadn't eaten basic tier fast food in 15 years. That could be anecdotal evidence for some general trend ("fast casual! increasing consumer health consciousness!"), or it could just be me.
I'd be willing to bet a totally irresponsible amount of money that if I went out to bars in Atlanta tonight, I would hear someone say "bum a cigarette" before closing time rolled around.