Gum

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, a sticky substance of natural origin composed predominantly of polysaccharides
  • Gum (botany), natural gum of botanical origin
• Other exudates that solidify like natural gum, such as:
  • Resin
  • Kino
• 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

• 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
• GUM, the ISO 3166 country code for Guam
• Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport, Guam, FAA/IATA airport code GUM
• Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement (GUM), a guide measurement uncertainty

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Gum
• All pages with titles containing Gum
• Gummy (disambiguation)
• Gumball (disambiguation)
• Gumshoe (disambiguation)
• Gum Spring (disambiguation)
• Adhesive
  • Spirit gum
  • List of glues
• 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