spirit gum

1. 1.

   an adhesive solution made of gum and ether and used to attach false hair to skin

   Broaderadhesive material

Questions about spirit gum

What does spirit gum mean?

spirit gum means "an adhesive solution made of gum and ether and used to attach false hair to skin".

Is spirit gum a common word?

spirit gum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.