Meaning

4 senses
  1. Chewing gum sold as a ball usually coated with colored hard sugar.

    Remember those clear globe dispensers with gumballs for a penny?

  2. (slang)A silly, laughable person.

    When he drinks too much he's a gumball.

  3. (US, slang)The flashing lights on top of a police car.

  4. The spiky seedpod of the sweet gum tree.

    Kaugummikugel

Examples

4 sentences
  1. Tom put a quarter in the gumball machine.

    deTom steckte einen Vierteltaler in den Kaugummiautomaten.

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  2. Tom put a quarter into the gumball machine.

    deTom steckte einen Vierteltaler in den Kaugummiautomaten.

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  3. "Why did you steal the gumball machine?" "I just really wanted gumballs."

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  4. "What do you get when you cross a bee with a gumball?" "I don't know." "Me neither, I was just asking."

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Translations

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Origin

From gum + ball.

From gum + ball.

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Forms

plural: gumballs
Singulargumball
Pluralgumballs

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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