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(V) The act of sacking or removing an individual for absolutely no reason at all from an organisation or place for a prolonged period of time, typically for three years or more.
This job sucks! The boss seems to be umsing all his new employees!
Generic Tums. Often found in bottles of 150, at Walgreens (Wall-Ums), Long's Pharmacy, CVS, etc. Lacking expensive Tums-branded wrapping, they are best carried in a sammich baggie.
What's in that baggy?
Ums. Need one?
Nah, I'm cool.
The word used when the speaker is unable to find the correct term.
I am supposed to um... use this word in a sentence.
sound which verbally comes out the mouth. the other variation is uh and they both mean nothing
More recently used to unintentionally irritate people who prefer straight forward answers. Literally, "something is urgently wrong but instead of me just immediately telling you, you must figure it out yourself in the amount of time it takes me to make this sarcastic and unhelpful remark."
Can be typed as well.
Example, this used to be proper protocol in an urgent situation--
Bob: "Joe, watch out for that large pothole you seem to be unknowingly driving into."
Joe: (avoiding pothole) “Thank you for your timely and straight-forward warning. I appreciate you using the first sentence after you were alerted to this danger to tell me about this pothole, instead of uttering a one-worded, useless phrase.”
Modern protocol, same situation--
Bob: (sarcastically) "Um..." Joe: “What?..... What?” (car drives into pothole)
Bob: “Wow, good job.”
an answer commenly used when your screwed.
dad: "did you have sex with my daughter?"
man: "um..."