chum up (English, verb)
expansion: chum up (third-person singular simple present chums up, present participle chumming up, simple past and past participle chummed up)
Senses:
glosses: To be friendly toward (with or to) someone, especially in an ingratiating way; to form a friendship (with).
tags: idiomatic
informal
glosses: To initiate (a new prisoner) through a ritual involving beating him with sticks and swords, accompanied by music, to extort money from him.
tags: UK
obsolete
slang
transitive
Forms:
form: chums up
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chumming up
tags: participle
present
form: chummed up
tags: participle
past
form: chummed up
tags: past