Definition of "stickum"

stickum

/ˈstɪkəm/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural stickums
1. (Canada, US, informal) Any adhesive, adhesive residue; any sticky or gummy substance.
  Quotations
  A strip of muslin swaddles his privates, fixed by means of pine stickum to his belly and buttocks.
  1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 16
  He had sat next to Cindy returning from the Y and smelled the chlorine on her. A sodden Band-Aid had clung by a few lingering bits of stickum to her knee.
  2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections