duct tape

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A roll of duct tape

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Etymology

Possibly a corruption or eggcorn of duck tape (“thick, canvas-like tape”), resulting from the relative obscurity of the term duck (“a strong, durable, tightly woven fabric; canvas”), reinforced by the use of the tape in joining together heating and air conditioning duct work. See also the etymology at duck tape.

Noun

duct tape (countable and uncountable, plural duct tapes)

  1. A generally gray waterproof adhesive tape used for many purposes and easy to cut with the hands.
    Synonyms: duck tape, gray tape
    I used duct tape to cover the hole in a leaky pipe.

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Verb

duct tape (third-person singular simple present duct tapes, present participle duct taping, simple past and past participle duct taped)

  1. (transitive) To use duct tape in order to tape one object to another.
    The government tells us we can protect against a chemical attack by duct taping the windows.
    • 2018, Tommy Orange, “Interlude”, in There There, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 136:
      There are Schimmel Sister stickers, and Navajo Nation stickers, Cherokee Nation stickers, Idle No More, and AIM flags duct-taped to antennas.

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