gum🔊

(in the plural) The flesh around the teeth.

To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal.

To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer.

A viscous water-soluble carbohydrate exudate of certain plants that hardens when it becomes dry, or such a substance as a component of a plant exudate.

Any viscous or sticky substance resembling the true gum.

Chewing gum.

A single piece of chewing gum.

(in the plural) A gummi candy.

(Southern US) A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive.

(Southern US) A vessel or bin made from a hollow log.

(dialect) A rubber overshoe.

A gum tree.

{{lb|en|sometimes with (up)}} To apply an adhesive or gum to; to make sticky by applying a sticky substance to.

To stiffen with glue or gum.

{{lb|en|sometimes with (together)}} To inelegantly attach into a sequence.

{{lb|en|colloquial|with (up)}} To impair the functioning of a thing or process.