Sellotape
Britishnoun
verb
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"It looked absolutely disgusting, like Sellotape with like little ridges in it," said the 42-year-old from Cardiff.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
It looked like my old school shirt when I petted our dog, before my mother wrapped her hand in Sellotape and pulled the fur from the white cotton.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 6, 2020
“No piece of Sellotape strikes me as an adequate marital partner,” she said.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2018
That during the Nazi occupation Norwegians wore paper clips as a symbol of resistance, or that the British tape manufacturer Sellotape makes half its annual sales during the three-month run-up to Christmas?
From Slate ● May 7, 2015
It was a flat packet wrapped in clear plastic and stuck with Sellotape.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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