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bubblegum

/ˈbʌbəlɡʌm/

bubblegum noun: a sweet, stretchable chewing gum designed for blowing bubbles.

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
    • Kim—tanned, a bubblegum-pink mouth, pegged jeans, high butt, high heels.1987, Judith Moore, The Left Coast of Paradise: California and the American Heart, page 36

Adjective

bubblegum

  1. Tasting like bubblegum.
  2. (broadly, figuratively, informal) Sweet, perky, or youthful.
    • Last year, the Daily Mail found that Emily in Paris, a bubblegum dramedy starring Lily Collins, plugged 37 brands throughout 10 episodes.2025 October 29, Alaina Demopoulos, “What’s with the sponcon slop in Nobody Wants This? Netflix, nobody wants this”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
  3. (informal) Poppy; typical of, or in the style of, pop music.

bubblegum meaning in Tamil and Thai

bubblegum in Tamil

சவைக்கும் கோந்து

bubblegum in Thai

chewing gum — see also chewing gum
หมากฝรั่ง màak-fà-ràng

Synonyms of bubblegum

Forms of bubblegum

pluralbubblegums
alternative formbubble gum

Origin of bubblegum

From bubble + gum.

Words formed from bubblegum

Phrases with bubblegum

Questions about bubblegum

What does bubblegum mean?
Bubblegum means a sweet, stretchable chewing gum designed for blowing bubbles.
What is bubblegum in Tamil?
Bubblegum in Tamil is சவைக்கும் கோந்து. See Bubblegum meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bubblegum?
Bubblegum can be a noun or an adjective.
How do you pronounce bubblegum?
Bubblegum is pronounced /ˈbʌbəlɡʌm/.
What is the plural of bubblegum?
The plural of bubblegum is bubblegums.

Words near bubblegum in the dictionary

  1. bubbled up
  2. bubblefish
  3. bubblegoose
  4. bubblegooses
  5. bubblegrunge
  6. bubblegum
  7. bubblegum pop
  8. bubblegummy
  9. bubblegums
  10. bubbleguts
  11. bubblehead

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bubblegum (page history and authors); bubblegum (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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