scotchtape

1. uncountableAdhesive tape, sometimes figuratively.

   And the scotchtape of enduring relationship seals your lips.

   1993, Kusuma Aṃsala, Sheltering Shadows, page 53

   3 more examples

   Applied to a sheet of cardboard, the net result is the equivalent of a large sheet of scotchtape, against which the container can be placed, obviating the danger of slippage or movement inside the packing.

   1945, American Management Association, Making the Most of Packaging Material, numbers 13-15, page 38

   He is known to go out on a stage before a thousand people (who have paid hardearned cash for tickets) and, sticking the words of a song with scotchtape to the microphone, sing them for the first time in his life.

   2013, Ronald D. Cohen, James Capaldi, The Pete Seeger Reader

   Its wing was broken and we made a sling with toothpicks and scotchtape and when it was better we both took it to the backyard and opened the shoebox and let it go.

   2014, David Lovett, Return 2 Terror: With Love, page 265

present singular third person scotchtapes · participle present scotchtaping · participle past scotchtaped · past scotchtaped

1. To apply scotchtape.

   He ended up scotchtaping the words inside a drawer for her to read.

   1987, Iowa English Bulletin, volumes 35-39, page 82

   2 more examples

   A memo prohibiting memos from being scotchtaped to walls is scotchtaped to the wall.

   1977, George S. T. Chu, The Kidney Patient: A Socio-medical Study, page 6

   I surreptiously scotchtape a piece of fuzz swiped from the office aspirin bottle to the seat of my pants.

   1985, Carol Morris, Ironing Scott's Zen Suit, page 67