Gum
Appearance
Gum or GUM may refer to:
Viscous or sticky substances[edit]
- 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[edit]
Fictional characters[edit]
- 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
- Gum, a character in the Sega Heroes video game
- 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
Film and television[edit]
- "The Gum", episode of comedy TV show Seinfeld
- Gums (film), a 1976 horror film
Literature[edit]
- Gum, a 2017 book by Nancy Willard
- Glasgow University Magazine, in Scotland
- Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement (GUM), a guide measurement uncertainty
Music[edit]
People[edit]
- Gum (footballer) (Welington Pereira Rodrigues, born 1986), Brazilian footballer
- Ager Gum (1941–1996), military leader and song composer from Sudan
- Allen Gum (born 1969), American baseball coach
- Chong Gum (born 1976), North Korean rhythmic gymnast
- Courtney Gum (born 1981), Australian rules footballer
- Mongezi Gum (Gum Mongezi Mongshai, born 1970), South African township artist
- Tony Gum (born 1995), South African photographer
- 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[edit]
- Gums, the soft tissue partly covering teeth
- Gum (crater), on the Moon
- GUM (department store), in Russia
- Gum Air, a Surinamese airline
- Gum languages of New Guinea
- Gum River, in Papua New Guinea
- Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport, Guam, IATA airport code GUM
- Genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinic, a sexual health clinic
See also[edit]
- All pages with titles beginning with Gum
- All pages with titles containing Gum
- Gummy (disambiguation)
- Gumball (disambiguation)
- Gumshoe (disambiguation)
- Gum Spring (disambiguation)
- Gum Tree (disambiguation)
- Adhesive
- Gum-Gum, township in Malaysia
- Gum metal, titanium alloy with high elasticity
- Gum tree, any of various related species of Eucalypt trees
- GumCo, an American advertising agency