stickum

English

Etymology

From stick + variant of 'em, him.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈstɪkəm/
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Noun

stickum (countable and uncountable, plural stickums)

  1. (Canada, US, informal) Any adhesive, adhesive residue; any sticky or gummy substance.
    • 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin 2006, p. 16:
      A strip of muslin swaddles his privates, fixed by means of pine stickum to his belly and buttocks.
    • 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
      He had sat next to Cindy returning from the Y and smelled the chlorine on her. A sodden Band-Aid had clung by a few lingering bits of stickum to her knee.
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