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stickums

stickums is the plural of stickum.

Meaning of stickum

Noun

stickum (countable and uncountable, plural stickums)

  1. (Canada, US, informal) Any adhesive, adhesive residue; any sticky or gummy substance.
    • A strip of muslin swaddles his privates, fixed by means of pine stickum to his belly and buttocks.1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 16

Questions about stickums

What is stickums the plural of?
Stickums is the plural of stickum.

Words near stickums in the dictionary

  1. sticktights
  2. sticktion
  3. sticktoitive
  4. sticktoitiveness
  5. stickum
  6. stickums
  7. stickup
  8. stickups
  9. stickwater
  10. stickweed
  11. stickweeds

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