Scotch tape
Americanverb (used with object)
noun
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Shares of 3M slipped in early Tuesday trading, as the Post-it Notes, Scotch tape and Command strips maker’s quarterly earnings beat and in-line profit outlook was overshadowed by a broad-market selloff.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 20, 2026
What do KPop Demon Hunters, SUVs, Scotch tape, and protein shakes all have in common?
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2025
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
The stains of Scotch tape once attached to his posters are visible on the walls.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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
So while Kate Spade the company may have begun with a handbag — Ms. Spade Scotch-taped her ideas together out of paper when she was an editor at Mademoiselle magazine — it didn’t end there.
From New York Times ● Jun. 5, 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
I stuck the letter back in the envelope, Scotch-taped it together, and readdressed it to Buddy, without putting on a new stamp.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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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