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gum band

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noun

Chiefly Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
  1. a rubber band.


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But the attention of the crowd riveted itself on a flat, Russia leather wallet, around which a heavy gum band was wrapped, and which bore in gilt letters the name "Simon Harrington."

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