gumball

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"You can see the blood leaking out of this one." (the vampire shaped gumball is filled with some sort of blood-like sugary syrup) "Ohhh sharedy," Liam said, shaking his hands feigning fright.

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  1. noun A small ball of chewing gum with a colored sugar coating.

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  • Pieces of chrome and glass and Plexiglas from the gumball-flasher array on the top of the cruiser flew in all directions after Eddie hit. —  Dan Simmons - Hardcase
  • They pulled out of the parking lot and as soon as they were on Main Street Mason hit the switch for the gumball machine — the revolving red and blue light on top of the car. —  The Empty Chair
  • All of this under a calm gumball-blue sky And Sinead O'Connor was singing "The Last Day of Our Acquaintance" and a girl lying across from me was positioned in such a way that I could see her anus and she would reach under her bikini bottom and scratch it, then bring her fingers to her face and lightly smell them. —  Glamorama
  • The white face with its stiff goatee gazed severely at him with eyes mismatched, one crazed and cracked like a faded gumball, the other blue as a robin's egg, bright and quite alert. —  FSF,June2005
  • If what your equipment is sporting is a knock-off brand of gumball or-heaven help us-something healthy, no one in their right mind is going to give you their hard-earned quarters. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
 

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