"Blu-Tack" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: EN-AU ck1 Blu-Tack.ogg [Australia]
Etymology: From a brand name, from blue tack. Etymology templates: {{m|en|blue tack}} blue tack Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} Blu-Tack (uncountable)
  1. (British, New Zealand, Australia) A solid putty-like adhesive, originally blue in colour, used to secure items to walls and other surfaces. Tags: Australia, British, New-Zealand, uncountable Related terms: mastic Translations (putty-like adhesive): wondergom (Afrikaans), prestik (Afrikaans), 藍丁膠 (Chinese Mandarin), 蓝丁胶 (lándīngjiāo) (Chinese Mandarin), 寶貼 (Chinese Mandarin), 宝贴 (bǎotiē) (Chinese Mandarin), 泥膠 (Chinese Mandarin), 泥胶 (níjiāo) (Chinese Mandarin), sinitarra (Finnish), kennaratyggjó [neuter] (Icelandic), Blu-Tack [masculine] (Spanish), häftmassa [common-gender] (Swedish), kladdmassa [common-gender] (Swedish), klet [neuter] (Swedish), kludd [neuter] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-Blu-Tack-en-noun-MNWKhyjM Categories (other): Australian English, British English, New Zealand English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 51 49

Verb

Audio: EN-AU ck1 Blu-Tack.ogg [Australia] Forms: Blu-Tacks [present, singular, third-person], Blu-Tacking [participle, present], Blu-Tacked [participle, past], Blu-Tacked [past]
Etymology: From a brand name, from blue tack. Etymology templates: {{m|en|blue tack}} blue tack Head templates: {{en-verb}} Blu-Tack (third-person singular simple present Blu-Tacks, present participle Blu-Tacking, simple past and past participle Blu-Tacked)
  1. (British, New Zealand, Australia) To fix with Blu-Tack. Tags: Australia, British, New-Zealand
    Sense id: en-Blu-Tack-en-verb-auUO1igF Categories (other): Australian English, British English, New Zealand English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English genericized trademarks, English links with manual fragments, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 51 49 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 42 58 Disambiguation of English genericized trademarks: 40 60 Disambiguation of English links with manual fragments: 39 61 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 38 62

Inflected forms

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