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, polysaccharides of natural origin, including a list of natural gums
 * Gum (botany), sap or other resinous material associated with certain species of the plant kingdom
 * 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

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
 * Antonio B. Won Pat International Airport, Guam, IATA airport code GUM
 * Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement (GUM), a guide measurement uncertainty