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Sellotape
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sellotape
English
Etymology
en :blend cellophane tape 1
Brand name, from en cellophane en tape. The first letter was changed to avoid infringing the then-extant trademark on en cellophane.
Noun
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en UK Ireland Australia NZ A brand of adhesive tape (and similar products) similar to Scotch tape (US).
en Scotch tape US sticky tape Britain, Australia
Derived terms
en sellotape
Translations
adhesive tape
See also
en adhesive tape
en Durex
en Scotch tape
en sticky tape
en tape
Verb
en sellotape.
en Joel Richman Traffic Wardens: An Ethnography of Street Administration w:Manchester University Press 1983 69 0-7190-0898-0 On one car he Sellotaped the ticket over the windscreen wiper.
en Janis Mackay Magnus Fin and the Ocean Quest Kelpies 2009 2011 978-086315-890-2 He stood on his bed then Sellotaped the mermaid picture on to his wall so she would be the first thing he would see when he woke up.
en Ella Griffin A Little Bit of Summer Orion Books 2013 978-1-4091-4840-1 She Sellotaped the stems back on but they just fell off again.
en Debashish Irengbam Charlie Next Door w:HarperCollins 2017 978-93-5277-443-2 ‘Didn’t they tell you about the pipe leakage problem there?’ ‘Yeah, I Sellotaped it.’ She stared at him. ‘You Sellotaped it?’ ‘Yeah, I just Sellotaped the shit out of it.’
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