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bubble-gum

bubble-gum is the alternative form of bubblegum.

Meaning of bubblegum

Noun

bubblegum (countable and uncountable, plural bubblegums)

  1. (uncountable, usually) A sweet, stretchable chewing gum designed for blowing bubbles.
  2. (derogatory, sometimes) A type of pop music marked by sweetness, pep and charm (rather than depth or complexity).
    • Born in the small town of Rockwood, east Tennessee, Carter’s bubblegum sound and mini-bad boy image made him the definitive millennium child star.2022 November 6, Emma Garland, “Aaron Carter was the millennium’s bubblegum bad boy – and the victim of a rapacious music industry”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
    Synonyms:
    bubblegum pop
  3. A light pink colour, the hue in which bubblegum is traditionally coloured.
    • […] a bubblegum-pink leather wrist- watch band in Woolworth's window on Fifth Avenue catches my eye.1975, William Targ, Indecent Pleasures, page 109

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Forms of bubble-gum

pluralbubble-gums

Questions about bubble-gum

What is bubble-gum the alternative form of?
Bubble-gum is the alternative form of bubblegum.

Words near bubble-gum in the dictionary

  1. bubble wrap
  2. bubble wraps
  3. bubble zone
  4. bubble zones
  5. bubble-brained
  6. bubble-gum
  7. bubble-gums
  8. bubble-guts
  9. bubble-head
  10. bubble-headed
  11. bubble-heads

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bubble-gum (page history and authors); bubblegum (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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