Sellotapen.
/ˈsɛləʊteɪp/ The proprietary name of a cellulose or plastic self-adhesive tape, frequently dispensed from reels for domestic use. Also gen.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > adhesive > [noun] > adhesive tape
adhesive tape1887
sticky tape1890
duck tape1899
passepartout1910
durex tape1932
Scotch tape1934
durex1938
Sellotape1949
duct tape1965
1949 Trade Marks Jrnl. 9 Nov. 1002/2 Sellotape... Adhesive tape (stationery). Adhesive Tapes Limited, 8, Brunel Road, Acton, London, W.3; Manufacturers and Merchants.
1957 Landfall (N.Z.) XI. ii. 169 Does she want to come a cropper, dashed earthward by wings casually fastened with sellotape?
1960 P. 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.
1960 H. Pinter Birthday Party 76 There's some Sellotape somewhere. We can stick them together.
1971 Petticoat 24 July 3/1 It's certainly a lot less painful than ordinary cellotape which we've been using up till now.
1974 J. 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.
1980 Guardian Weekly 3 Feb. 20/5 So far he has largely run on string and Sellotape.
Derivatives
sellotape v. transitive to fasten with Sellotape.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with other materials > work with other materials [verb (transitive)] > fix or fasten with adhesive
glue13..
lute1489
paste1561
gum1592
starch1602
solution1891
seccotine1903
Scotch-tape1947
tape1956
sellotape1960
epoxy1974
1960 P. A. Bennett in J. Pudney Pick of Today's Short Stories XI. 16 She..cellotaped them [sc. pictures] to the wall.
1964 A. Wilson Late Call iii. 113 He continued to sellotape Beth's caricatures to the walls.
1976 Daily Tel. 14 May (Colour Suppl.) 36/3 There are four pictures (one bought in Piccadilly, the others from Elvis Monthly) Sellotaped to the wall.
ˈsellotaped adj.
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1969 ‘E. McGirr’ Entry of Death iii. 56 An assortment of cellotaped cartons.
ˈsellotaping n.
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1965 M. Drabble Millstone 178 Lydia really did have to rewrite two whole chapters as well as doing a lot of boring sellotaping.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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