gumball
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- noun
- /ˈɡʌmˌbɔl/
:
bola de chicle
- "Gumballs are more than candy, isn't that right, Stan?" said Monique, smiling broadly.
- gumball machine
- gumballs from a bowl
There's gumball machines still filled with gumballs that no one eats.
- There's gumball machines still filled with gumballs that no one eats.
- However, we can still ask the question, well, why does that gumball machine exist?
- Grapes, Kiwi, apples and scent of super sour gumballs.
- Like what if one dispenses gumballs and one dispenses Aurora fluid?
- We did have this full of bubble gums, but Aaron and I like bubble bubble gum balls, gumballs, crying out loud.
Examples
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There's a broken gumball machine right behind the snack tent.
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The right one had something in it: a gumball.
Fiction book (2001) -
Look everybody, a red gumball!
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We'll take the gumballs, too.
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And one, two, three gumballs right on cue.
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Stan took a gumball from the glass jar and looked at it.
Fiction book (2001) -
In their boat was a glass jar filled with perhaps three hundred yellow gumballs.
Fiction book (2001) -
The March of Dimes gumball machine was as red as Superman's cape.
Fiction book (2002) -
There's gumball machines still filled with gumballs that no one eats.
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The kids crowded around the gumball machine, eager to choose their favorite flavor.
Synonyms
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A small sweet made from sugar, often with chocolate or nuts
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A small round piece of chewing gum with a hard colored sugar coating often sold in vending machines
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Gumball comes from gum ('chewing gum') + ball ('round thing'), so it originally meant a small, round piece of gum often sold in vending machines.