Scum

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
• The topmost liquid layer in a septic tank, mainly consisting of fats

Games and sport

• Scum (video game), an upcoming open-world survival video game
• 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 derogatory nickname for English football club Southampton F.C., used by supporters of rivals Portsmouth

Books, film and TV

• Scum, a 1991 novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer translated from the Yiddish by Rosaline Dukalsky Schwartz
• "The Scum", a derogatory nickname for British tabloid The Sun
• Scum, a script by Roy Minton
  • Scum (television play), a 1977 television version directed by Alan Clark with Ray Winstone in a lead role
  • Scum (film), a 1979 British feature film version directed by Clark and with Winstone
• SCUM Manifesto, a 1967 book by Valerie Solanas

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 (Anti-Nowhere League album), 1997
• Scum (Napalm Death album), 1987
• Scum (Rat Boy album), 2017
• Scums (album), by Nightmare, 2013

Songs

• "Scum", by Depeche Mode from Spirit, 2017
• "Scum", by Goat Girl, 2016
• "Scum", by Meat Puppets from No Joke!, 1995
• "Scum", by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds from Your Funeral... My Trial, 1986
• "Scum", by Oi Polloi from Unite and Win, 1987
• "Scum", by Lovejoy from Wake Up & It's Over, 2023

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"
• Project SCUM, a cigarette marketing initiative
• S.C.U.M. ("Saboteurs and Criminals United in Mayhem"), the criminal organisation from the animated series; James Bond Jr.

See also

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