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sellotrap
The game of Sellotrap (tm) is where stationery and boredom collide.
When a co-worker leaves their desk unattended, it is your job to set up a sticky spider's web of sellotape to ensnare your colleague upon their return. Ideally the web should be almost invisible to the naked eye, although a common way to make the sellotrap work is via distraction. The veteran sellotrap player may use tactics such as alluring screensavers or desktop backgrounds to divert the trapee's attention. WARNING - it is best to keep sellotraps above knee level (especially tripwire sellotraps) in order to avoid injury, death or unwanted lawsuits due to trippage.
When a co-worker leaves their desk unattended, it is your job to set up a sticky spider's web of sellotape to ensnare your colleague upon their return. Ideally the web should be almost invisible to the naked eye, although a common way to make the sellotrap work is via distraction. The veteran sellotrap player may use tactics such as alluring screensavers or desktop backgrounds to divert the trapee's attention. WARNING - it is best to keep sellotraps above knee level (especially tripwire sellotraps) in order to avoid injury, death or unwanted lawsuits due to trippage.
Mr Butler: I say, there appears to be something stuck to the top of my balding pate!
Mr McDowall: What splendid fun, my sellotrap hijinks have worked a treat!
Ms Hobbs: You chaps had better get back to work lest your backsides meet my beating stick at speed.
Mr McDowall: What splendid fun, my sellotrap hijinks have worked a treat!
Ms Hobbs: You chaps had better get back to work lest your backsides meet my beating stick at speed.
sellotrap by AlvinSimonTheodore January 6, 2008
Related Words
selldot • selldog • sellotape • sellbot • selldom • Sellotaped • sellotapegypsy • Sellotape skittles • Sellotaph • sellotrap
sellotape
sellotape is a long sticky strip of material that you use to to attach things together such as paper, the end of your apple charger to make it not bend, and the mouths of your hostages. it is an extremely dangerous material, and it is not allowed to be used in most institutions. if they find out you've been using it they will stamp down on you, and they will punish you to ensure that the people don't gain any kind of power, as they want to keep you in your place so that they can keep theirs at the top. they want to stamp down on our freedom of creative expression, because they know, essentially, that we will expose them.
whoa there is that sellotape? be careful with that.
i'm going to use this sellotape to strangle all my enemies
i'm going to use this sellotape to strangle all my enemies
sellotape by dirtyprotest101 March 18, 2017
Shit and Sellotape
a last minute/really poor attempt at something that should've been done a long time ago, with three or four times more effort.
ahh mate, the coursework i handed in was such a shit and sellotape effort. i thought the deadline was in a week!!
Shit and Sellotape by wallsawalls January 5, 2009
sellbot
An individual who often partakes in the act of "selling", meaning to perform poorly in important circumstances such as in heated competition. The "bot" (short for robot) portion of the word refers to the individuals capacity to only be able to "sell", similarly to how certain robots/machines have only the capacity to do one specific thing.
tl;dr a retard
tl;dr a retard
Neil: did you see sebastian try to bumrush the entire enemy team? my man died instantly
Marco: Yeah man, what a sellbot
Marco: Yeah man, what a sellbot
sellbot by collin o'neil July 12, 2021
Sellotaph
A road side memorial, usually in the form of a wreath or bunch of flowers Sellotaped to a lamp post or road sign to mark to place of a traffic accident in which fatalities occurred.
An amalgamation of the words 'Sellotape' and 'Cenotaph'. (Sellotape is a popular European brand name for sticky backed plastic tape, aka Scotch Tape.)
An amalgamation of the words 'Sellotape' and 'Cenotaph'. (Sellotape is a popular European brand name for sticky backed plastic tape, aka Scotch Tape.)
Maud - "Oh look Bernard, there's one of those Sellotaphs." (pointing at the flowers taped to a post on the side of the road)
Bernard - "Must have been an accident here." (looking at said flowers, taped to a post)
Maud - "Oh yes... In that case stop looking at the Sellotaph and keep your eyes on the road!" (Maud hits Bernard with hand bag)
Bernard - "Must have been an accident here." (looking at said flowers, taped to a post)
Maud - "Oh yes... In that case stop looking at the Sellotaph and keep your eyes on the road!" (Maud hits Bernard with hand bag)
Sellotaph by Monty Veda February 17, 2009
sellotape
sellotape by thestrangegirl February 5, 2018
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