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Everyone from Victoria: If you stood up in a Melbourne bar and shouted 'I hate Collingwood' you'd get thrown out by a hundred gum suckers.
Contributor's comments: How did this name originate please?
Editor's comments: The term dates back to the early 19thC when it was a common habit for people to chew on balls of gum taken from acacia trees. That only Victorians did this seems well-nigh impossible, but somehow the sobriquet was attached to them. Perhaps gum-producing acacia trees were more common there?