Bum Bait 

An old couch or mattress left in an alley or vacant lot. These things attract bums like flies. The cops know that they can usually find bums there arrest them for warrants, vagrancy etc

Todd: Can you help me move my old couch into the alley for the trash truck to pick it up?

Charlie: You don't want to lay out bum bait do you? You'll have some hobo or junkie sleeping on it by the morning.

Bum Bait by Jack Goff June 6, 2007

Bum Bait 

In any video game (typically Halo: Reach), offering one of your teammates as bait to the enemy team by standing perfectly still, then proceeding to kill the idiot who tries to kill the bait.

"Stand with your back to the enemy so they'll come over."
"Why?"
"So you can be bum bait!"

Bum Bait by Nik5566 September 23, 2012

Bum Baiting

Bum Baiting : A recent trend in the UK where individuals provoke or antagonize vulnerable people, such as homeless individuals, drug addicts, and alcoholics, often while they’re drinking or in public spaces. This behavior is typically recorded for online videos, done for amusement, to gain views, or to make money by making the video go viral. It’s similar to "vlogprovoking," both with a focus on exploiting the vulnerable.

Lee: Every time I go on YouTube, I keep seeing these YouTubers, annoying homeless drunks and drug addicts just for a view. These people have enough struggles, Bruv.
Frank: Init bruv. There is proper bum baiting.
Lee: Yeah, there scum those sorts of people, Bruv.
Frank: Don't worry, karma always catches up Bruv. LOL
Lee: Init bruv, they will be the ones on the streets homeless one day and have to deal with all the people they have pissed off LOL.
Frank: LOL.

Bum Baiting by Jamie Cheese December 9, 2025