A firm fruit-flavoured sweet made with gelatin or gum arabic.
Example sentencesExamples
Yet the Zanucks have been married now for 12 years - an eternity by Hollywood's standards, where marriages last about as long as a fruit gum.
This is an evening entirely without the snobbery that so often infects theatre: you can eat fruit gums all the way through, and nobody minds if the kids sing along with the songs they know.
Confectionery such as this and fruit gums will generally cause blood sugar levels to sky-rocket and induce surges of insulin.
Some had sporting themes such as horse racing or football, and prizes would vary from a packet of fruit gums to a pack of cigarettes.
Even his mouth is sweet, like he'd been chewing fruit gum or something.