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chewing

noun A2
  1. The act by which something is chewed on; mastication. (countable, uncountable)
  2. The consumption of (the juice from) the khat plant. (countable, uncountable)
  3. The consumption of loose leaf tobacco juice from tobacco plants by chewing leaves near the cheek. (countable, uncountable)

Plural chewings

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It’s 9.45 o’clock, and not a single picture hat or piece of pineapple chewing gum has showed up yet.”
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 17 · C1
The first product ever scanned with a UPC barcode was a pack of chewing gum, which was sold in a supermarket in Troy, Ohio, on June 26, 1974.
The stripes on everything, p. 1 · B2

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