chum up

Verb

 * 1)  To be friendly toward (with or to) someone, especially in an ingratiating way; to form a friendship (with).
 * 2)  To initiate (a new prisoner) through a ritual involving beating him with sticks and swords, accompanied by music, to extort money from him.
 * 3) * 1849,, Popular Antiquities of Great Britain, revised by , 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.
 * 1)  To initiate (a new prisoner) through a ritual involving beating him with sticks and swords, accompanied by music, to extort money from him.
 * 2) * 1849,, Popular Antiquities of Great Britain, revised by , 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.
 * Mr. Miller. They are not very nice whom they chum up?
 * Boot. Not very; they would as soon chum you up as anybody else.

Translations

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