chum up

短语

成为朋友 要好

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释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To be friendly toward (with or to) someone, especially in an ingratiating way; to form a friendship (with).

    套近乎

    习语 非正式

    I chummed up with a few of my new work colleagues.

  2. 2.

    To initiate (a new prisoner) through a ritual involving beating him with sticks and swords, accompanied by music, to extort money from him.

    英国 废旧 俚语 及物

    1849, John Brand, Popular Antiquities of Great Britain, revised by Henry Ellis, London: Henry G. Bohn, Volume 2, p. 452, Mr. Miller. They are not very nice whom they chum up? Boot. Not very; they would as soon chum you up as anybody else.

  3. 3.

    To apply chum to water as bait.

  4. 4.

    To render a situation frenzied and confusing.

    引申义

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