Scum

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Scum or S.C.U.M. may refer to:

Scum

• Soap scum, an informal term for the white solid that results from the addition of soap to hard water
• Impurity that accumulates at the surface of a liquid (especially water or molten metal)
• Dross, solid impurities floating on a molten metal
• Algae or similar vegetation found floating on the surfaces of ponds
• Scum, the topmost liquid layer of a cesspool or septic tank

Games and sport

• Scum (card game), a card game in which players race to get rid of all of the cards in their hands
• S.C.U.M. (professional wrestling), a professional wrestling stable
• "Scum" or "scummers", a nickname for Southampton F.C., commonly used by supporters of the team's long-standing rivals, Portsmouth F.C.

Books, film and TV

• Scum, novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer translated from the Yiddish by Rosaline Dukalsky Schwartz
• Scum, a script by Roy Minton
  • Scum (television play), a once banned television version (1977) directed by Alan Clark with Ray Winstone in a lead role
  • Scum (film), a British feature film version (1979) of the above directed by Clark and with Winstone

Music

Bands

• Scum (band), a Norwegian hardcore punk/black metal band
• S.C.U.M (band), an English post-punk/art rock group
• SCUM, a side project of Japanese noise musician Merzbow

Albums

• Scum (Napalm Death album), a 1987 grindcore album
• Scum (Anti-Nowhere League album), a 1997 punk rock album
• Scums (album), a 2013 rock album by Japanese band Nightmare

Songs

• "Scum" (song), a song by Meat Puppets from the 1995 album No Joke!
• "Scum", a bonus track from the 1986 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds album Your Funeral... My Trial
• "Scum", a song by Oi Polloi originally released on the 1986 album Resist the Atomic Menace

Acronyms

• SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion), scripting language for development of the graphical adventure game Maniac Mansion
• SCUM Manifesto, a 1967 radical feminist manifesto wherein SCUM means "Society for Cutting Up Men"

See also

• Scum Lake (disambiguation)
• Scum of the Earth (disambiguation)
• Skum (disambiguation)
• All pages with a title containing scum
• Scump or Seth Abner (born 1995), professional Call of Duty player