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It's common and slang. I am so young that I can only trace it from my youth. To be bummed = to be bummed out (i.e. suffer a bumming ( bum = disappointing ) experience . Here's the earlier etymology from Online:
bum (2) "dissolute loafer, tramp," 1864, Amer.Eng., from bummer
"loafer,...
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