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gums
noun
overshoes US- — Claudio R. Salvucci, The Philadelphia Dialect Dictionary, p. 43, 1996
▶ flap your gums; beat your gums; beat up your gums
to talk US, 1955- I just got tired of hearing the two of you flap your gums. — Jon Sharpe, Rogue River Feud, p. 97, 1995
- Are you gonna get on, or are you gonna stand there and beat your gums? — Virgia DeBerry, Tryin to Sleep in the Bed You Made, p. 207, 1997
- I am not flappin’ my gums for dental exercise – I am trying to make a point ‘ere. — Bernard Demsey and Kevin McNally Lock, Stock... and Two Sips, p. 291, 2000
▶ give your gums a rest
to stop talking US- You’d think the Republicans might give their gums a rest now that they have a ferociously rightwing president[.] — The Guardian, 25 July 2003
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