Zak Bagans

I believe if you believe in something or, let's take for instance you go into a demonic location and you have a lot of fear: that fear within your body, within your mind, is like chum in water attracting a shark. They feed off our emotions. These demons also will influence and inflict malice into a living person because that's how they feed.

American Author

Rob Thomas

I still don't think I've ever read a Nancy Drew book; I probably read three or four 'Hardy Boys' books when I was 10, 11, 12, and I didn't love them at the time. Even then, they felt dated to me, like the word chum - 'my chum and I.' However, the 'Encyclopedia Brown' books, I read all of them.

American Producer

Jamie Johnson

In affluent communities, where each member is keenly aware of his or her place within the Byzantine order, attracting the right friends is a blood sport. Chumming up to influential figures who are in a position to help can determine the course of an entire life.

American Director

A. E. van Vogt

Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.

Canadian Author

Mike Huckabee

I treat my wife very differently than I treat my chums and my pals. I wouldn't worry about calling them on Valentine's Day, opening the door for them, or making sure they were OK.

American Politician

Norman Wisdom

I used to first go on to entertain an audience. But now I go, and this is really true - I go on to have fun with a crowd of my chums.

English Comedian

Raveena Tandon

The fact is many of these guys whom I was supposed to be seeing are my buddies. I've always been the bum chum kinda girl.

Indian Actress

Peter O'Toole

I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums.

Irish Actor

Johnny Miller

Guys who chum it up are just OK. Guys who are great players are loners.

American Athlete

Donovan

The Faces are my old chums. We used to hang out.

Scottish Musician

'Chum' is casual and best used among friends, not in professional settings.

Informal Use

'Chum' is more common in British English and can seem old-fashioned or endearing in American English.

British Origin

'Chum' can denote friendship in any age group, from children to the elderly.

Age Neutral

Used as a verb, 'chum' describes the act of spending time and establishing friendship.

Friendly Verb

'Chumming around' suggests shared activities or interests leading to friendship.

Companionable Activity

'Chum' in fishing refers to chopped fish used to lure predator fish.

Fishing Bait

As bait, chum is meant to appeal to the target fish's sense of smell.

Attracting Predators

Chumming is a strategic technique to create a trail of bait in the water.

Fishing Technique

Chumming is especially associated with shark fishing but can attract other species.

Shark Fishing Specifics

 you're gonna pay your dues we've all paid dues like the cases hundreds of thousands of dollars I'm gonna do better than others sooner you know just for someone to get a boat and think it's easy to go out and catch a blue fin tuna they're going to be in for a rude awakening it's not as easy as just going out anchoring up chum and putting

Reel Talk Ep. 6 - Tuna...

 Our animals which we're using, they're almost blind, or they don't see much for they're night animals, so they're completely depending on the sense of smell and hearing. So...and if you look at them, they're sniffing all the time. As with the TB training, Mandy and chums have spent several months in laboratories,

Rats Save Humans From...

 going to do things that the governments of the world cannot now do we're gonna do something nobody else can do when you talk to the bottom of the ocean you have to face the fact that there are 100 horrible ways to die in the event that there is a break in a hatch the water will bust through and I get chummed into

DEEPSEA CHALLENGE 3D...

 the biggest deep-sea shark out there. And they already have some fish down there and a tube filled with chum. And we're just playing the waiting game, hoping for these sharks to show up. We've already seen two of them. And we're hoping that another one shows up. And yeah, are you excited?

Deep Sea Shark Stakeout...

 and harder for the target audience -- that includes the media -- to decipher and characterize. If you can get a hashtag trending on Twitter, or chum the waters with fake news directed to audiences primed to receive it, or drive journalists to dissect terabytes of email

How (and why) Russia...

 son of a goldsmith, he was a sickly kid whose school chums died of plague. He survived to cut up corpses as an anatomist, studying organs shared across species. He found a duct in animal skulls that sends saliva to the mouth. He refuted Descartes' idea

The most groundbreaking...

 The way cage diving operations work is that boats use chum to try and attract sharks to the area. People then get into cages, which are submerged in the water, to get much, much closer to very dangerous sharks than they would otherwise be able to.

Western Australia's...

 packed with canaries driven by a toucan—I swear those lips said bright wings when we kissed, wild and precise—as if she were teaching a seahorse to speak— her mouth so careful, chumming the first vowel from my throat

"First Kiss" by Tim...

 Another clue. GREG The shark goes to the back of the cages, and there you go. Right there. There's a bait box behind the cage, and the shark is checking out the bait box. This highlighted bait box is full of chum.

Why Sharks Attack Cage...

 yeah we're just gonna keep chumming i think and tee it up

Chum

Informal Use

British Origin

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