Gum Explained
Gum or GUM may refer to:
Viscous or sticky substances
- Chewing gum, designed to be chewed without being swallowed
- Bubble gum, designed to be inflated out of the mouth as a bubble
- Gum base, the masticatory delivery system
- Natural gum, polysaccharides of natural origin, including a list of natural gums
- Gum (botany), sap or other resinous material associated with certain species of the plant kingdom
- Postage stamp gum, applied to the back of a stamp
Arts, entertainment and media
- Mr. Gum, a series of novels for children by Andy Stanton, and the protagonist
- Gum, a character in the Jet Set Radio video game franchise
- Gums, a character in the British comic Monster Fun
- Great Uncle Matthew, a character in the novel Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
- Gum, a character from the 2016 adult animated film Sausage Party
- "The Gum", episode of comedy TV show Seinfeld
- Gums (film), a 1976 horror film
- Gum, a 2017 book by Nancy Willard
- Glasgow University Magazine, in Scotland
- Ghent University Museum in Belgium
- GUM, the moniker used by musician Jay Watson for solo recordings
People
- Gum (footballer) (Welington Pereira Rodrigues, born 1986), Brazilian footballer
- Allen Gum (born 1969), American baseball coach
- Gum Nanse (born 1947), South Korean conductor
- Gum Tayeng (fl. from 2013), an Indian politician
- Gum Yuen (1875–1943), Chinese Australian community leader
- Jay Watson (born 1991), Australian musician who records as GUM
Other uses
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