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Definition of gumming this up
gum up
verb - transitive
- to cause a mechanism to stop functioning, or function more slowly.
Citation from "Mysterious Algorithm Was 4% of Trading Activity Last Week", CNBC, John Melloy, 8 Oct 2012 blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.- See more words with the same meaning: to break, ruin, destroy.
Last edited on Oct 08 2012. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Oct 08 2012.
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Other terms relating to 'to break, ruin, destroy': | |
| Definitions include: a bug that makes hardware or software unusable. | |
| Definitions include: ruined. | |
| Definitions include: to destroy. | |
| Definitions include: high-grade marijuana. | |
| Definitions include: to be under the influence of drugs. | |
| Definitions include: in an update or sequel to a video game, to make a weapon weak or weaker, such that it's like a Nerf gun. | |
| Definitions include: to phone or page excessively; to fill up the capacity of some electronic answering service (voice mail, answering machine, one's pager, etc.) | |
| Definitions include: to vomit. | |
| Definitions include: to wreck a vehicle such that repairs would cost more than the value of the (unwrecked) vehicle. | |
| Definitions include: to break or ruin. | |
| Definitions include: to overwhelm a web site with massive amounts of traffic due to Slashdot linking to it. | |
| Definitions include: to steal. | |
| Definitions include: to have sex. | |
| Definitions include: to break, to fail. | |
| Definitions include: good; excellent; "cool". | |
Slang terms with the same root words
Other terms relating to 'gum': | |
| Definitions include: a teen that listened to "bubblegum pop" music. | |
| Definitions include: "pop" (popular) music aimed at the young, characterized by being upbeat rather than complex. | |
| Definitions include: Talking to much, or talking crap | |
| Definitions include: chewy candy | |
| Definitions include: To give fellatio with the gums or without any teeth. | |
Other terms relating to 'up': | |
| Definitions include: a secret advantage. | |
| Definitions include: to misbehave. | |
| Definitions include: acronym of "all fucked up." | |
| Definitions include: well dressed, wearing makeup, etc. | |
| Definitions include: doing something emphatically. | |
| Definitions include: energetic due to consumption of a stimulant. | |
| Definitions include: to increase. | |
| Definitions include: to contribute one's share. | |
| Definitions include: to mess up. | |
| Definitions include: to make something like ass. | |
| Definitions include: strange, stupid; "weird". | |
| Definitions include: stupid. | |
| Definitions include: strange / stupid. | |
| Definitions include: to move away from. | |
| Definitions include: to call someone to halt, particularly when the intention is to rob. | |
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