Definitions

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  • noun UK, New Zealand A solid putty-like adhesive, originally blue in colour, used to secure items to walls and other surfaces.
  • verb UK, New Zealand To fix with Blu-Tack.

Etymologies

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blue tack

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Examples

  • The crash jolts me back and forward and the Blu-Tack falls out of my ears.

    Blood Men Paul Cleave 2010

  • I grab some Blu-Tack from the reception desk and ball it into my ears.

    Blood Men Paul Cleave 2010

  • To start to get back into it I started to measure and check where the Blu-Tack was and move it a bit, my crazy bits of 3D.

    Sargy Mann: the blind painter of Peckham Tim Adams 2010

  • Once established, the space can become whatever he wants it to be, flooded with the remembered sunshine of the Mediterranean, which he then recreates on canvas, guided by a movable grid of Blu-Tack blobs, and an internalised rush of colour.

    Sargy Mann: the blind painter of Peckham Tim Adams 2010

  • The crash jolts me back and forward and the Blu-Tack falls out of my ears.

    Blood Men Paul Cleave 2010

  • I grab some Blu-Tack from the reception desk and ball it into my ears.

    Blood Men Paul Cleave 2010

  • Soon Hooper was forced to slink back to the drawing pins and Blu-Tack along with everybody else.

    Dead Famous Elton, Ben 2001

  • On it Trisha had affixed photographs of the ten housemates, which she had then connected by a great mass of crisscrossing lines of tape stuck to the plaster with Blu-Tack.

    Dead Famous Elton, Ben 2001

  • You'll find a tight, tasteful, and even tame selection of painting, sculpture and photography -- a far cry from the days when British art meant Blu-Tack on a wall and fried eggs on a woman's chest.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • This is an astonishing teen dream line-up - you only need add David Cassidy (and subtract little Leo) and you account for pretty much all the sales of Blu-Tack in the mid seventies.

    The Guardian World News 2010

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