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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 envelope
  2. bubble envelopes
  3. bubble era
  4. bubble eras
  5. bubble fusion
  6. bubble gum
  7. bubble gums
  8. bubble gut
  9. bubble guts
  10. bubble in
  11. bubble letter

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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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