Sellotape

Brand name, from cellophane tape. The first letter was changed to avoid infringing the then-extant trademark on cellophane.

Sellotape (usually uncountable, plural Sellotapes)

1. (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) A brand of adhesive tape (and similar products) similar to Scotch tape (US).

   Synonyms: (US) Scotch tape, (Britain, Australia) sticky tape

• sellotape

• adhesive tape
• Durex
• Scotch tape
• sticky tape
• tape

Sellotape (third-person singular simple present Sellotapes, present participle Sellotaping, simple past and past participle Sellotaped)

1. Alternative letter-case form of sellotape
   • 1983, Joel Richman, Traffic Wardens: An Ethnography of Street Administration, Manchester University Press, →ISBN, page 69:

     On one car he Sellotaped the ticket over the windscreen wiper.

   • 2009, Janis Mackay, Magnus Fin and the Ocean Quest, Kelpies, published 2011, →ISBN:

     He stood on his bed then Sellotaped the mermaid picture on to his wall so she would be the first thing he would see when he woke up.

   • 2013, Ella Griffin, A Little Bit of Summer, Orion Books, →ISBN:

     She Sellotaped the stems back on but they just fell off again.

   • 2017, Debashish Irengbam, Charlie Next Door, HarperCollins, →ISBN:

     ‘Didn’t they tell you about the pipe leakage problem there?’ ‘Yeah, I Sellotaped it.’ She stared at him. ‘You Sellotaped it?’ ‘Yeah, I just Sellotaped the shit out of it.’

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