Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small ball of chewing gum with a colored sugar coating.
Wiktionary
- n. Chewing gum sold as a ball usually coated with colored hard sugar.
- n. slang A silly, laughable person.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A piece of chewing gum in the shape of a ball, usually covered with a colored glaze of sugar. They are often sold in a small, special-purpose coin-operated vending machine called a gumball machine.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a ball of chewing gum with a coating of colored sugar
Examples
“The Homies -- tiny LA Chicano gangsta figurines sold in gumball machines -- are drawing fire from the LAPD, who want their sale discontinued on the grounds tha they provide a poor role model for Hispanic children.”
“You will not come across manufacturers of several different types of vending machines, such as gumball machines and drink machines.”
“If you pay attention to the pictures you can see that there are a lot of details, like the gumball machine, a bottle of Coke and the New York Times paper sitting on one of the chairs.”
“When Music From Big Pink came out, people could hear mountain music in there, gospel music, blues, rock 'n' roll, rhythm and blues, and all these things like it was a big gumball of music, and it was because we had really woodsheded it and educated ourselves in trying to hone our skills.”
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“By noon, there were one thousand people and it seemed that I gotten the gumball count right.”
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“Do you think I should buy Twizzlers or a big red gumball?”
“The only noise was from the swallowing of chocolate and the snapping of sugar sticks and the crinkling of rice paper wrapper and the scraping of teeth against a gumball.”
“When Lee returned to Seattle, he was greeted by a huge box of Google swag, including a basketball, a chair, and a coin-operated gumball machine with a Google logo.”
“Near the hatchery ponds, at least in my home state, there's always a gumball type machine dispensing 'trout-food' so people can walk the hatchery ponds and feed the trout.”
I am leaving for Tennessee this Friday and I want to know how to fish for river trout.
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gumball’.
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confectionary
lollies sweets
caramel gets 48 hits
chocolate gets 112 hits
nonpareil 83 hitsconfectionary, chocolate, chew, alcorza, taffy, lolly, sweets, blackball, bonbon, brickle, bubblegum, cachou and 137 more...
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There's a sucker born every minute
Confections to sweeten the breath.
dragée, cachou, betel, chew, chaw, gum, bubblegum, gumball, mint, peppermint, mint imperial, after dinner mint and 21 more...
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Childhood
Hula-Hoop, fairies, twirl, twinkle, glitter, candyland, firefly, June bug, wonderland, Alice-in-Wonderland, bedtime stories, spelling bee and 27 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, G
grocer, gabanergic, gabardine, gabbro, gaffe, gneiss, grapple, grosgrain, grommet, gratify, gossamer, goofy and 194 more...
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Words I'd Like to Use Someday
thundersnow, phantasmagoria, mercurial, chimerical, taciturn, paraclete, lapis lazuli, flay, guttersnipe, wonky, misanthrope, kestrel and 583 more...
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Two years
Okay, I admit it. I made a list of words my daughter knew when she was two years old.
bat, baba, a, abalone, about, acorn, adrienne, after, again, airplane, alison, all and 694 more...
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Words I have learned that I can't eve...
fillip, tocsin, subfusc, lacuna, popinjay, sylvan, dubiety, doff, mimetic, cogitate, chthonic, neophyte and 134 more...
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