Blu-tack

British  

/ ˈbluːtæk /

noun

1. a type of blue, malleable, sticky material used to attach paper, card, etc to walls and other surfaces

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verb

1. (tr) to attach (paper, card, etc) to a wall or other surface by means of this material

Example Sentences

There was a time when I would copy out poems on fancy paper and send them back and forth to my friends in the mail, or put them up on the walls of my dorm room with gobs of Blu-Tack.

From Slate

For example, one week the Shakespeare’s Globe poster had fallen down in the classroom at school and you could tell because it had been put back slightly to the right and there were three little circles of Blu-Tack stain on the wall down the left-hand side of the poster.

From Literature

Blu-Tack has been used to take samples from inside the core of a nuclear reactor, saving thousands of pounds in developing a specialist tool.

From BBC

This is theatre you Blu-Tack to your bedroom walls; Marlowe as a two-hour music video.

From BBC

There is a box of papers lined with figures—accounts, perhaps from Scott’s business—and another filled with old postcards—blank ones, with bits of Blu-Tack on the back, as though they were once stuck onto a wall: the roofs of Paris, children skateboarding in an alley, old railway sleepers covered in moss, a view of the sea from inside a cave.

From Literature