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gumball
noun- the flashing coloured lights on a police car US, 1971
- — Helen Dahlskog (Editor), A Dictionary of Contemporary and Colloquial Usage, p. 29, 1972
- [A]nd if the guy didn’t sideswipe some cars and pile up he’d be on him before he hit Woodward, nail him with the gumballs flashing blue and siren turned up to high yelp. — Elmore Leonard, Switch, p. 150, 1978
- A lone gumball sits perched atop the passenger side of the roof. — Menace II Society, 1993
- [T]he amateur photographer turned on the patrol boat’s gumball-blue light and hit them with a few siren yelps. — Joseph Wambaugh, Floaters, p. 3, 1996
- in stock car racing, a soft tyre used for extra traction in qualifying heats but, because it wears out so quickly, not in races US
- — John Lawlor, How to Talk Car, p. 57, 1965
- They even had special tires for qualifying, soft tires, called “gumballs,” they wouldn’t last more than ten times around the track in a race, but for qualifying, which is generally three laps, they are great, because they hold tight on the corners. — Tom Wolfe, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, p. 137, 1965
- heroin UK
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 284, 2003
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