gumwrapper

plural gumwrappers

1. The wrapper from a gum piece.

   No buts and no matches and no gumwrappers and no gum, and no paper towels and no dental floss and no hair!

   1986, Maté, Ferenc, Shipshape : the art of sailboat maintenance, David & Charles, page 278

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   She was upside down, her hair fanned out and trailing in a puddle about a foot deep. Leaves and gumwrappers and ice cream sticks skimmed across the surface and lodged in the strands of slowly undulating hair.

   1989, Lieberman, Herbert H, Shadow dancers : a novel, Little, Brown, page 4

   It's nothing more than a gumwrapper looking piece of foil with red phosphorous, potassium chloride and metal shavings or BB's, whichever the producer would like to use.

   1996, Congress, Rising scourge of methamphetamine in America, U.S. G.P.O., page 38

   I used to pretend to trip over a stray paperclip or gumwrapper just so that I could get a closer look at the floor.

   1985, Susan E. Browne, With the power of each breath, Cleis Press, page 115

   […] the inside of his lapels, columns of formulae written in lilliputian hand on gumwrappers he had pasted to the soles of his shoes.

   1986, Unger, Douglas, El Yanqui, Harper & Row, page 69