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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bubble-gum

1937, from bubble (n.) + gum (n.). Figurative of young teenager tastes or culture from the early 1960s.

Usage examples of "bubble-gum".

They knew the music and the dances of their eras, they played baseball and they knew how to toss a bat to choose up sides, they memorized bubble-gum cards and batting averages, they knew Z-type cars, how to buy beer with a phony ID, local politics in the towns they would settle in .