Bazooka{™}

Bazooka{™}
n [U]
a popular US make of bubble gum. Packets contain cards with pictures of baseball or other sports players on them, and these are collected and exchanged by young people. The older cards are becoming valuable. Bazooka was originally sold with a small comic about a character called Bazooka Joe.

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