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
  • GUM, a 2020 album by rapper Cities Aviv

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
  • Genito-urinary medicine

See also

  • 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