scotchtape

See also: Scotch tape

English

Noun

scotchtape (uncountable)

1. Adhesive tape, sometimes figuratively.
   • 1945, American Management Association, Making the Most of Packaging Material, numbers 13-15, page 38:

     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.

   • 1993, Kusuma Aṃsala, Sheltering Shadows, page 53:

     And the scotchtape of enduring relationship seals your lips.

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

     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.

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

     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.

Verb

scotchtape (third-person singular simple present scotchtapes, present participle scotchtaping, simple past and past participle scotchtaped)

1. To apply scotchtape.
   • 1977, George S. T. Chu, The Kidney Patient: A Socio-medical Study, page 6:

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

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

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

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

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