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Definition of Stickum
1. Noun. (informal) Any adhesive, adhesive residue; any sticky or gummy substance. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stickum
1. a substance that causes adhesion [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stickum
Literary usage of Stickum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Circular Notes: Extracts from Journals, Letters Sent Home, Geological and by John Francis Campbell (1876)
"At the river " stickum," they—that is to say, somebody unknown for unknown
reasons—got up an excitement: and I have been conversing with the broken men who ..."
2. My Circular Notes: Extracts from Journals, Letters Sent Home, Geological and by John Francis Campbell (1876)
"At the river " stickum," they—that is to say, somebody unknown for unknown
reasons—got up an excitement: and I have been conversing with the broken men who ..."
3. Reports of Cases Decided in the Appellate Court of the State of Indiana by Appellate Court, Indiana Appellate Court, Indiana (1915)
"Smith—55 Ind. App. 124. upon the pulleys; that said "stickum" when used upon the
belt in its defective condition made it liable to fold and double on itself ..."
4. Essays and Essay-writing: Based on Atlantic Monthly Models by William Maddux Tanner (1918)
"There must be those who waggle over a glass of beer ; a case won in the Supreme
Court; a post-box filled with Suffragette stickum; a soul saved ; a rise in ..."
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