(British, NZ, Australia) To fix with Blu-Tack.
(British, NZ, Australia) To fix with Blu-Tack.
The power switch wasn't seated properly, and so I blu-tacked it into place.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(British, Australia) adhesive tape.
The standard British and Australian term for what Americans call Scotch tape or clear adhesive tape — the transparent, slightly shiny tape you grab for wrapping presents, fixing torn pages, or attaching notes. It's one of those quintessentially British vocabulary differences that catches Americans off guard: perfectly logical, perfectly descriptive, and utterly normal to anyone who grew up with it. Every British home has a roll of sticky tape rattling around somewhere in a kitchen drawer.
(UK, usually, in the plural) Something to aid attachment during construction (screws, wall plugs, etc).
(transitive, British, Irish, Australian, New Zealand) To seal with adhesive tape.
(British, NZ, Australia) A solid putty-like adhesive, originally blue in colour, used to secure items to walls and other surfaces.
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