duct tape

noun

: a wide cloth adhesive tape originally designed for sealing joints in heating or air-conditioning ducts
duct-tape transitive verb

Examples of duct tape in a Sentence

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What Happened on the Flight? Footage filmed by a fellow passenger shows a woman shouting and screaming as flight attendants try to restrain her with duct tape, according to the clip published by . Jordan King, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025 Timmerman, who was discovered by fishermen with duct tape wrapped around her face, her hands in handcuffs and her body weighted down by cinder blocks, disappeared days before Gabrion was scheduled to stand trial for allegedly raping her the year before. Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 2 Jan. 2025 Chelsea Arnone, director of federal affairs for CHIME, a group that represents hospital IT experts, pointed to one of its members' recent experiences consulting for a critical access hospital that had its emergency room door fixed with duct tape after being shattered by a rock. Tina Reed, Axios, 13 Jan. 2025 Watching Ashley give Luke the middle finger as she’s wheeled into an ambulance — miraculously having survived a stab to the neck thanks to a single piece of duct tape — isn’t satisfying enough after that insufferable groping scene. Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 27 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for duct tape 

Word History

First Known Use

1973, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of duct tape was in 1973

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“Duct tape.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/duct%20tape. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.

Kids Definition

duct tape

noun
: a wide cloth adhesive tape
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