Usually means: Chewable substance, flavors, not swallowed.
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We found 56 dictionaries that define the word Gum:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. gum: Merriam-Webster
  2. GUM, gum, gum, gum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gum, gum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gum: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gum: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gum, gum: Wordnik
  7. gum, gum (tree): Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Gum: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. Gum, gum: Wiktionary
  10. gum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. gum: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. gum: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. gum: Dictionary.com
  14. gum (1), gum (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. gum: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. GUM (department store), GUM, Gum (botany), Gum (footballer), Gum, The Gum (Seinfeld episode), The Gum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Gum: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. gum: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. gum: Rhymezone
  20. gum: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. gum: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. gum: FreeDictionary.org
  23. gum: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. gum: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. gum: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. gum: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Gum: Artist Search
  2. Epicurus.com Cigar Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  4. Natural Magick (No longer online)
  5. GUM: Glossary of Art Terms

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Gum: Glossary of Health Care Terms
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Gum (anatomy), gum: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. gum: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. GUM: UK Medical Acronyms
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Gum (anatomy), gum: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. GUM: Acronym Finder
  4. GUM: Three Letter Words with definitions
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. gum: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Gum, Gum, Gum, Gum, Gum, Gum: Botanical Name listing of Plants
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. gum, gum, gum, gum, gum, gum, gum, gum: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Gum: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. gum: Urban Dictionary
  4. Gum: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Gum: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See gummed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (GUM)

noun:  (often in the plural) The flesh around the teeth.
verb:  To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal.
verb:  (transitive) To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer.
noun:  (botany, biochemistry, chiefly uncountable) 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.
noun:  (chiefly uncountable) Any viscous or sticky substance resembling the true gum.
noun:  (chiefly uncountable) Chewing gum.
noun:  (countable) A single piece of chewing gum.
noun:  (South Africa, often in the plural) A gummi candy.
noun:  (US, dialect, Southern US) A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive.
noun:  (US, dialect, Southern US) A vessel or bin made from a hollow log.
noun:  (US, dialect) A rubber overshoe.
noun:  A gum tree.
verb:  (sometimes with up) To apply an adhesive or gum to; to make sticky by applying a sticky substance to.
verb:  To stiffen with glue or gum.
verb:  (sometimes with together) To inelegantly attach into a sequence.
verb:  (colloquial, with up) To impair the functioning of a thing or process.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Initialism of genitourinary medicine.
noun:  Initialism of GUM (department store).

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