Definitions
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- noun UK, New Zealand A solid
putty -likeadhesive , 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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Examples
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The crash jolts me back and forward and the Blu-Tack falls out of my ears.
Blood Men Paul Cleave 2010
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I grab some Blu-Tack from the reception desk and ball it into my ears.
Blood Men Paul Cleave 2010
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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
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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
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The crash jolts me back and forward and the Blu-Tack falls out of my ears.
Blood Men Paul Cleave 2010
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I grab some Blu-Tack from the reception desk and ball it into my ears.
Blood Men Paul Cleave 2010
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Soon Hooper was forced to slink back to the drawing pins and Blu-Tack along with everybody else.
Dead Famous Elton, Ben 2001
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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
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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.
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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.
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