Scotch tape
Americanverb (used with object)
noun
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Hundreds of Belgians living near a 3M plant have sued the US multinational maker of Post-it and Scotch tape over pollution from so-called "forever chemicals" in a trial that opens on Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Feb. 24, 2026
Meanwhile, sales for the consumer business, which includes Post-it Notes, Scotch tape and Command strips, fell 1.2% to $1.21 billion from $1.23 billion, while the FactSet consensus was for an increase to $1.25 billion.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 20, 2026
I was holding it together with Scotch tape and paper clips.
From Salon ● May 23, 2025
Auchincloss hopes they might decide to get out of the highway business altogether: “Instead of using Scotch tape and glue to fix it, let’s just think differently from first principles.”
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2024
He took the cheap ballpoint pen and traded it for a roll of Scotch tape.
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
There are no directional arrows Scotch-taped to the floor.
From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2020
So while Kate Spade the company may have begun with a handbag — Spade Scotch-taped her ideas together out of paper when she was an editor at Mademoiselle magazine — it didn’t end there.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2018
Yes, the country is barely Scotch-taped together and we have months of repairs ahead of us.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2016
And then he saw on the monitor that the blue paper had a little tear at the top of it and had been Scotch-taped together onto the card.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 10, 2016
When he returned to the school after practice, he found a letter Scotch-taped to the door of his locker.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
You can also have an instant face-lift by Scotch-taping your temples.
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2016
Speechwriter Patrick Anderson had written the first version, but 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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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