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What (who) is gum up - definition

FLAVORED CHEWING GUM IN BRAIL
Freshen Up Gum

Gum (botany)         
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SAP OR OTHER RESINOUS MATERIAL ASSOCIATED WITH CERTAIN SPECIES OF THE PLANT KINGDOM
Tree gums; Tree gum
Gum is a sap or other resinous material associated with certain species of the plant kingdom. This material is often polysaccharide-based and is most frequently associated with woody plants, particularly under the bark or as a seed coating.
chewing gum         
  • Chewing gum balls
  • Bubblegum bubble
  • Achras zapota]]) in [[Quintana Roo]], Mexico. This way of extracting by making zigzag incisions has been known since the ancient Mayan civilization, who called it ''sicté''.
  • Chewing gum on a sidewalk in [[Reykjavík]]
  • An image of a Colgan's Taffy Tolu Chewing Gum chromolithograph advertisement, circa 1910
  • Sticks of [[Fruit Stripe]] chewing gum
  • Gumdrop chewing gum collecting bin
SOFT, COHESIVE SUBSTANCE INTENDED FOR CHEWING BUT NOT SWALLOWING
Chewing Gum; Gum ban; Chewing-gum; Chewing gums; Chewing-gums; Chewinggum; Chewinggums; Chewin gum; Gum (food); Gum chewing; Swallowed chewing gum; Swallowed gum; Sugar-free gum
Chewing gum is a kind of sweet that you can chew for a long time. You do not swallow it.
...a stick of chewing gum.
= gum
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Chewing gum         
  • Chewing gum balls
  • Bubblegum bubble
  • Achras zapota]]) in [[Quintana Roo]], Mexico. This way of extracting by making zigzag incisions has been known since the ancient Mayan civilization, who called it ''sicté''.
  • Chewing gum on a sidewalk in [[Reykjavík]]
  • An image of a Colgan's Taffy Tolu Chewing Gum chromolithograph advertisement, circa 1910
  • Sticks of [[Fruit Stripe]] chewing gum
  • Gumdrop chewing gum collecting bin
SOFT, COHESIVE SUBSTANCE INTENDED FOR CHEWING BUT NOT SWALLOWING
Chewing Gum; Gum ban; Chewing-gum; Chewing gums; Chewing-gums; Chewinggum; Chewinggums; Chewin gum; Gum (food); Gum chewing; Swallowed chewing gum; Swallowed gum; Sugar-free gum
Chewing gum is a soft, cohesive substance designed to be chewed without being swallowed. Modern chewing gum is composed of gum base, sweeteners, softeners/plasticizers, flavors, colors, and, typically, a hard or powdered polyol coating.

Wikipedia

Freshen Up

Freshen Up was a chewing gum with flavored gels inside manufactured by Cadbury Adams in Brazil. Current flavours include cinnamon, peppermint, spearmint and bubble gum. A fruit variation was offered in the 1970s.

Examples of use of gum up
1. Alas, you gum up traffic every time you exit the gates in daylight.
2. Tactics included "trying to have meetings canceled ... to at least slow things down or gum up the works" or trying to conduct meetings on the subject without other key Cabinet members, one administration official said.
3. "But if you get any resistance from your future boss, the administrator, about this, you should let him know I‘m deeply concerned about this and willing to gum up the works a little bit until I get a clear response," he told the nominees.
4. "The Iranian uranium is contaminated with molybdenum and other heavy metals and that would tend to gum up the centrifuges and limit the degree of enrichment to far below the weapons grade level." To assess how close this takes the Iranians towards a nuclear reactor or potential bomb, he says we must know more about the centrifuges.
5. Friday December 2', 2006 3:01 AM AP Photo CODZ108, CODZ107 By CHASE SQUIRES Associated Press Writer DENVER (AP) – New Year‘s travelers jammed the Denver airport Thursday, trying to get out of town ahead of a snowstorm that threatened to close runways and gum up the nation‘s busy holiday travel season for the second time in a week.