duct tape

English

Duct tape

Possibly a corruption of duck tape ("a thick, canvas-like tape"), due to the relative obscurity of the term duck (“woven fabric, canvas”).

duct tape (countable and uncountable, plural duct tapes)

A generally gray waterproof adhesive tape used for many purposes.
Son, it's time you learned to use the family duct tape.

multipurpose waterproof tape

Arabic: شَرِيط لَاصِق‎‎ m (šarīṭ lāṣiq)
Hijazi Arabic: شَطَرْطون‎‎ m (šaṭarṭōn)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 牛皮膠紙, 牛皮胶纸 (ngau⁴pei⁴ gaau¹zi²)

Mandarin: 不透明膠帶, 不透明胶带 (bútòumíng jiāodài), 塑膠膠帶, 塑胶胶带 (sùjiāo jiāodài), 布基膠帶, 布基胶带 (bùjī jiāodài)
Danish: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: ilmastointiteippi (fi)
French: duct tape (fr) m
German: Panzerband n
Italian: nastro adesivo m

(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.

use duct tape

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