Crossword clues for sellotape
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1949, proprietary name, Great Britain.
Wiktionary
n. (context British English) adhesive tape. vb. (context transitive British English) To seal something with adhesive tape.
Wikipedia
Sellotape is a British brand of transparent, polypropylene-based, pressure-sensitive tape, and is the leading brand in the United Kingdom. Sellotape is generally used for joining, sealing, attaching and mending.
The term has become a genericised trademark used in Britain, Ireland, South Africa, Croatia, Greece, India, Sri Lanka, Israel, Japan, Nigeria, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Serbia, Spain, Turkey, Macedonia, Zimbabwe, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia. The term is also used much in the same way that Scotch Tape came to be used in Canada and the United States (and Sticky Tape in Australia), in referring to any brand of clear adhesive tape.
Usage examples of "sellotape".
Her tidy fingers prised open a scruffy package that looked as if it had been lassoed by sellotape.