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Sellotape, n.|ˈsɛləʊteɪp|
Also sellotape, cellotape.
[f. cellulose n. + -o + tape n.1]
The proprietary name of a cellulose or plastic self-adhesive tape, freq. dispensed from reels for domestic use. Also gen.
1949Trade Marks Jrnl. 9 Nov. 1002/2 Sellotape... Adhesive tape (stationery). Adhesive Tapes Limited, 8, Brunel Road, Acton, London, W.3; Manufacturers and Merchants. 1957Landfall (N.Z.) XI. ii. 169 Does she want to come a cropper, dashed earthward by wings casually fastened with sellotape? 1960P. A. Bennett in J. Pudney Pick of Today's Short Stories XI. 16 A wind..blew down all the pictures stuck with cellotape to the wall. 1960H. Pinter Birthday Party 76 There's some Sellotape somewhere. We can stick them together. 1971Petticoat 24 July 3/1 It's certainly a lot less painful than ordinary cellotape which we've been using up till now. 1974J. Cooper Women & Super Women 19 They always talk about having ‘stuck together because of the children’, as though the little blighters have been using glue and sellotape on them. 1980Guardian Weekly 3 Feb. 20/5 So far he has largely run on string and Sellotape.
Hence as v. trans., to fasten with Sellotape; ˈsellotaped ppl. a., ˈsellotaping vbl. n.
1960P. A. Bennett in J. Pudney Pick of Today's Short Stories XI. 16 She..cellotaped them [sc. pictures] to the wall. 1964A. Wilson Late Call iii. 113 He continued to sellotape Beth's caricatures to the walls. 1965M. Drabble Millstone 178 Lydia really did have to rewrite two whole chapters as well as doing a lot of boring sellotaping. 1969E. McGirr Entry of Death iii. 56 An assortment of cellotaped cartons. 1976Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 14 May 36/3 There are four pictures (one bought in Piccadilly, the others from Elvis Monthly) Sellotaped to the wall. |