Chris from Castro, New York, is curious about bum rush or bum’s rush, which refers to forcibly removing someone from an establishment. In 1987, Public Enemy’s debut album Yo! Bum Rush the Show popularized the use of bum rush to mean something...
Bummer, the small-disappointment word, traces back to German bummler, a loafer or drifter. English soon had bum in a similar sense, and its negative associations later attached to phrases such as bum deal, bum rap, and bum trip. By the late 1960s...