"chewing-gum" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1862 January 4, Jonesboro Weekly Gazette, volume XII, number 49, Jonesboro, Ill., front page, column 6:",
          "text": "Two boys, one aged eight and the other twelve years, in Rome, Oneida county, N. Y., a few days ago, had a childish altercation about some chewing-gum and pop-corn, and, as they separated, threw at each other with sticks and other missiles, […]",
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          "ref": "1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VII, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 75:",
          "text": "“[…] What I like is chewing-gum.” “O, I should say so! I wish I had some now.” “Do you? I’ve got some. I’ll let you chew it awhile, but you must give it back to me.”",
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          "ref": "1940 April 27, Max Stafford, “Speed on the Sands”, in Illustrated Leicester Chronicle, page 18, column 3:",
          "text": "Then he wrenched off the top of a box, and commenced to cram chewing-gum into his mouth. Sticks of it; dozens of sticks.",
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        "Dated form of chewing gum."
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          "ref": "1862 January 4, Jonesboro Weekly Gazette, volume XII, number 49, Jonesboro, Ill., front page, column 6:",
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          "ref": "1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VII, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 75:",
          "text": "“[…] What I like is chewing-gum.” “O, I should say so! I wish I had some now.” “Do you? I’ve got some. I’ll let you chew it awhile, but you must give it back to me.”",
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