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What is by gum?

Good thing that people chew. Comes in various flavors and is rubber like.

I was chewing gum yesterday.

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by gum - video


By gum - what is it?

the act of a toothless person, such as an old lady or a carni, giving head, and all you get is gums

That carni just gave me the best gum job!

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What does "by gum" mean?

A delicious rubber like candy that people chew when they are bored or are hungry for sugar.
Bubblegum is gum you chew and can blow bubbles out of.
Chewing gum can only be chewed, most people chew chewing gum for fresh breath.
Gum has many different flavors.

Most common for bubblegum: Strawberry
Most common for chewing gum: Peppermint

I grabbed a delicious piece of Wrigley's 5Gum and chewed on it, mostly because being in the car for so long bored me.

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By gum - what does it mean?

Putting drugs between your gums and your mouth walls for a slow dispersion of the drug.

I got a two 50s, might try gumming them tonight.

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By gum - meaning

a bachelor's toothbrush.

Ricky, who was already late to work, popped some Dentyne gum to cover up last night's halitosis.

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By gum - definition

something you chew on when your bored in class

i've been chewing 3 pieces of gum for the past 4 periods

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By gum - slang

High School Currency

Got any chewing gum?

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By gum

An imaginary aliment suffered occasional by office employees. Actually an acronym that stands for "gotta use my sick-time." Used to describe someone who calls in sick without actually being sick simply to use up sick time before it expires.

"Bob is out sick today? I hope it's nothing serious"
"Nah, I think he just has a case of The GUMS"

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By gum

A chewy, sticky wad of flavored sugar (or sorbitol or xylitol if it's sugar-free, smarty-pants) that may come as a ball, a stick, a cube, a 6-foot strip in a pink plastic dispenser, etc. Typically flavored as either classic bubblegum, a fruit (juicy fruit, strawberry, watermelon, orange, kiwi, pineapple, dragonfruit, etc.), or some kind of mint (peppermint, spearmint, wintergreen, winterfresh, sweetmint, smooth mint, polar ice, fresh mint; the list goes on. What's the difference? Don't ask me.). Common uses include sticking it under desks, putting it in people's hair, playing with it as slime, using it as a currency/bribe, breath freshener, etc.

Person 1: You got any gum?
Person 2: Yes. Mint gum. $1 per piece.
Person 1: What?! THAT'S SO -- Okay. *hands over dollar*
Person 2: Nice doing business with you. *takes dollar, then takes chewed gum out of mouth and sticks it on Person 1's hand*

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By gum

A) ultimately, what really matters is, fundamentally, at all

Example> Then I looked more closely and by gum , found a rainbow lurking in the mist ahead.

Example> But what he was really good at was machines. By gum, he could make them go! He loved anything mechanical, did Walter.

Example> If he were elected , by gum , things would be different

B) in general

Example> When we produce reporters who purport to be devoted to balance and impartiality , by gum , they deliver just that.

Other usages:
"By love, by gum"
"Eat bone by gum"

All examples are not artificial but real life usage from corpus of English (Corpus Of Contempory American English)

by gum, you'd figure it out, by yourself

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