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chewing gum
[ choo-ing ]
noun
- a sweetened and flavored preparation for chewing, usually made of chicle.
chewing gum
noun
- a preparation for chewing, usually made of flavoured and sweetened chicle or such substitutes as polyvinyl acetate
Word History and Origins
Origin of chewing gum1
Example Sentences
Perhaps they might find surprising insights into how cats communicate or into the bacteriomes of discarded wads of chewing gum from different parts of the world.
In July, Philip Morris International snapped up the Danish firm Fertin Pharma, which makes medicinal chewing gum.
He parked near us and sat watching and chewing gum or something.
After the boys testified, they were seen exiting the courthouse smiling, chewing gum, and slapping their hands together.
Turk came up with a design modeled on lozenge-shaped chewing-gum.
They pushed old ladies off the sidewalks and bought young girls for packs of chewing gum.
I have been frantically chewing gum for two days, pausing only to eat and sleep.
Then rolling chewing-gum from one corner of his mouth into the other, he snapped off the electric light and walked from the room.
One of the town flatfoots came down and stared in, chewing gum methodically.
Rosin-weed has always seemed to me to be a harmless herb, which is shown also by its use among children as chewing gum.
The driver, a lean saturnine man who seemed to be forever chewing gum, began to prepare coffee.
In the North they also have a strange custom, called chewing gum.
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