Scum may refer to:
- A layer of impurity that accumulates at the surface of a liquid (especially water or molten metal)
- A greenish water vegetation (such as algae), usually found floating on the surfaces of ponds
- The topmost liquid layer of a cesspool or septic tank
- SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion), scripting language developed at LucasArts to ease development of the graphical adventure game Maniac Mansion
- Scum, one of many names for the card game President
- SCUM, acronym for Society for Cutting Up Men in the SCUM Manifesto
- A person or group of people regarded as contemptible or worthless (pejorative)
- Scum (film), a British film starring Ray Winstone
- Scum (television play), a television play written by Roy Minton and directed by Alan Clark
- S.C.U.M (band), a South East London based post-punk/art rock group
- Scum (band), a hardcore punk/black metal band.
- Scum (Napalm Death album)
- Scum (Anti-Nowhere League album)
- All pages with titles containing "scum"
Famous quotes containing the word scum:
“Thou blind man’s mark, thou fool’s self-chosen snare,
Fond Fancy’s scum and dregs of scattered thought,
Band of all evils, cradle of causeless care,
Thou web of will whose end is never wrought;
Desire! desire, I have too dearly bought
With price of mangled mind thy worthless ware;”
—Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)
“The people of this country are too tolerant. There’s no other country in the world where they’d allow it... After all we built up this country and then we allow a lot of foreigners, the scum of Europe, the offscourings of Polish ghettos to come and run it for us.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)