Gum or GUM may refer to:
Types of gum
- Adhesive
 - Bubble gum
 - Chewing gum
 - Natural gum, viscous materials of natural origin
 - Gum (botany), sap or other resinous material associated with certain species of the plant kingdom
- Gum arabic, made from the sap of Acacia senegal, an Old World tree species
 - Gum copal, resin produced from the sap of Daniellia, a genus of Afrotropical forest trees
 - Gum ghatti, made from the sap of Anogeissus latifolia, an Asian tree species
 - Gum guaicum, substance produced from Guaiacum officinale, a neotropical tree species
 - Gum guar, made from the seeds of guar, Cyamopsis tetragonoloba, an Old World annual legume
 - Gum karaya, made from the sap of Sterculia urens, an Asian tree species
 - Spruce gum from the resin of spruce trees
 - Kauri gum, from the fossilized resin of Kauri trees
 - Locust bean gum, made from the seeds of carob, Ceratonia siliqua
 - Xanthan gum, a common food thickener and stabilizer
 
 - Gum base, the provides the basic textural and masticatory properties of chewing and bubble gums
 - Gum metal, titanium alloy with high elasticity
 - Postage stamp gum, substance applied to the back of a stamp to enable it to adhere to a letter
 - Spirit gum, used to affix applications to the body
 
People
- Gum (footballer) (born 1986), Brazilian footballer
 - Gum Mo-jam, military leader
 - Allen Gum (born 1969), American college baseball coach
 - Jay Watson (born 1991), a.k.a. GUM, Australian musician
 
Places
- Guam, ISO-3166-1 alpha-3 and the 2 letter ISO of Guam is GU and the 3 letter ISO of Guam Is GUM. The calling code for this area is +1-671
 - Guam International Airport (IATA airport code: GUM)
 - Gum (crater), lunar impact crater
 - Gum-Gum, township in Malaysia
 - Gum Springs, Arkansas
 - Gum Wall, a brick wall covered in used chewing gum in Seattle
 - White Gum Valley, Western Australia
 - The Old Gum Tree in Glenelg North, South Australia
 
Science
- Gum bichromate, 19th-century photographic printing process
 - Gum depigmentation, a procedure used in cosmetic dentistry
 - Gum over platinum, a chemical photographic process
 - Gums, or gingiva, the soft tissue partly covering teeth
 - Genitourinary medicine, deals with reproductive problems
 
Entertainment
- "The Gum", episode of the comedy television show Seinfield
 - Glasgow University Magazine, in Scotland
 - Mr. Gum, central character in a series of novels for children by Andy Stanton
 - Gum (character), a playable character from the Jet Set Radio video game franchise
 - Gums, a character in the British comic Monster Fun
 - Great Uncle Matthew, a character in the novel Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild
 - Gum, a character from the 2016 adult animated film Sausage Party
 - Gum Girl, a protagonist The Gumazing Gum Girl! book series by Rhode Montijo
 - Gums (film), a 1976 horror film
 
Other uses
- GUM (department store), in Moscow, Russia
 - Global United Media, Indian film company
 - Gum Air, an airline in Paramaribo, Suriname
 - Gum languages of New Guinea
 - Gum tree, any of various related species of Eucalypt trees
 - Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement, known as the GUM, a metrology guide pertaining to measurement uncertainty
 - GUM, a business unit of the Sunstar Group which designs and manufactures dental cleaning tools like toothbrushes and gum stimulators
 - Mother Gum, a character who is Princess Bubblegum’s parent in the animated series Adventure Time
 
See also
- Gummy (disambiguation)
 - Gum-digger, a person who dug for kauri gum in New Zealand
 - Gumball (disambiguation)
 - Gumshoe (disambiguation)
 
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