Definition

School lore's grossest discovery: gum stuck to the underside of a desk, the even nastier sibling of ABC gum (already been chewed). It's a classroom fossil record, and somebody's decades-old pick-me-up is probably still up there. Nobody admits to chewing it, but everyone knows who did.

Example Usage

Don't touch that, it's UTD gum from the back row and it's been there since fourth grade.

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