gumband

English

Etymology

gum +‎ band.

Noun

gumband (plural gumbands)

  1. (Western Pennsylvania) Synonym of rubber band
    • 1993, Walter Buzz Storey, Stories of Uniontown and Fayette County, page 193:
      Some of the guns were made “automatic” by carving extra notches, making it possible to load two or three gumbands at a time. The epitome was the machine gun, a long board with five or six notches — a strip of cloth would be stretched over them, then the gumbands on top of it.
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