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Scotch tape
Also scotch tape.
The proprietary name of a make of adhesive tape; also applied loosely to any adhesive tape. Hence Scotch-tape v. trans., to affix or join with adhesive tape; Scotch-taped ppl. a., affixed or made fast with adhesive tape.
[1945Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 16 Oct. 373/1 Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Company, St. Paul, Minn... Scotch for pressure-sensitive adhesive tape. Claims use since January 1928.] 1947R. Lee Electronic Transformers & Circuits ii. 28 Electrical grade scotch tape is widely used for anchoring leads. 1949R. Chandler Little Sister ix. 54 To the lining of the toupee a piece of..paper was fastened by Scotch tape. 1955‘J. Wyndham’ in ‘E. Crispin’ Best SF 81 There was a wire, scotch-taped to the upper side of the bag. 1957V. Nabokov Pnin iv. 99 Carrying his purchase, wrapped in brown paper and Scotch-taped, he entered a bookstore. 1961Wodehouse Ice in Bedroom xxvi. 222 Her lips..shall be sealed, if necessary with Scotch tape. 1961J. H. Griffin Black like Me 86 The whites frequently..Scotch-tape these notices to the wall. 1969K. Amis Green Man i. 26 Coloured photographs..Scotch-taped to the walls. 1976Observer 24 Oct. 28 It [sc. Sellotape] still has 75 per cent of the market over here, though in America Scotch Tape has become the generic term. 1977Time 31 Jan. 24/1 Carter wrote at least three more drafts, sometimes spreading the paragraphs out like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle and Scotch-taping them into a new arrangement. |