"scotchtape" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1945, American Management Association, Making the Most of Packaging Material, numbers 13-15, page 38:",
          "text": "Applied to a sheet of cardboard, the net result is the equivalent of a large sheet of scotchtape, against which the container can be placed, obviating the danger of slippage or movement inside the packing.",
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          "ref": "1993, Kusuma Aṃsala, Sheltering Shadows, page 53:",
          "text": "And the scotchtape of enduring relationship seals your lips.",
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          "ref": "2013, Ronald D. Cohen, James Capaldi, The Pete Seeger Reader:",
          "text": "He is known to go out on a stage before a thousand people (who have paid hardearned cash for tickets) and, sticking the words of a song with scotchtape to the microphone, sing them for the first time in his life.",
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          "ref": "2014, David Lovett, Return 2 Terror: With Love, page 265:",
          "text": "Its wing was broken and we made a sling with toothpicks and scotchtape and when it was better we both took it to the backyard and opened the shoebox and let it go.",
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        "Adhesive tape, sometimes figuratively."
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      "form": "scotchtapes",
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          "ref": "1977, George S. T. Chu, The Kidney Patient: A Socio-medical Study, page 6:",
          "text": "A memo prohibiting memos from being scotchtaped to walls is scotchtaped to the wall.",
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          "ref": "1985, Carol Morris, Ironing Scott's Zen Suit, page 67:",
          "text": "I surreptiously scotchtape a piece of fuzz swiped from the office aspirin bottle to the seat of my pants.",
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          "ref": "1987, Iowa English Bulletin, volumes 35-39, page 82:",
          "text": "He ended up scotchtaping the words inside a drawer for her to read.",
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        "To apply scotchtape."
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          "ref": "1993, Kusuma Aṃsala, Sheltering Shadows, page 53:",
          "text": "And the scotchtape of enduring relationship seals your lips.",
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          "text": "Its wing was broken and we made a sling with toothpicks and scotchtape and when it was better we both took it to the backyard and opened the shoebox and let it go.",
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          "ref": "1985, Carol Morris, Ironing Scott's Zen Suit, page 67:",
          "text": "I surreptiously scotchtape a piece of fuzz swiped from the office aspirin bottle to the seat of my pants.",
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          "text": "He ended up scotchtaping the words inside a drawer for her to read.",
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