gumband

gum·band
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/ɡʌmbænd/

noun

Synonym of rubber band.

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rubber bandrubber-bandrubberband
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Meanings

noungumband (plural gumbands)

plural gumbands

  1. PennsylvaniaWesternSynonym of rubber band.

    Some of the guns were made “automatic” by carving extra notches, making it possible to load two or three gumbands at a time. The epitome was the machine gun, a long board with five or six notches — a strip of cloth would be stretched over them, then the gumbands on top of it.

    1993, Walter Buzz Storey, Stories of Uniontown and Fayette County, page 193

    Synonyms: rubber band, rubber band, rubber-band, rubberband

Synonyms & antonyms

nounSynonym of rubber band.

Similar
rubber bandrubber bandrubber-bandrubberband

Origin

From gum + band.

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gumband. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gumband

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“gumband.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gumband. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gumband,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gumband.

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