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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.
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.
sellotrap by AlvinSimonTheodore January 6, 2008
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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
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

selulotape

the word that Mac computers want to correct 'sellotape' to, despite the fact that 'selulotape' doesn't actually appear in the Mac dictionary.

It would seem a programmer added the word 'lul' in there, literally, for the luls.
mac programmer: i did it for the selulotapes
selulotape by winabagel August 7, 2010

selfography 

I study selfography.
selfography by The Dark Fish April 14, 2014

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.)
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)
Sellotaph by Monty Veda February 17, 2009

sellotape 

when you and tour friends stick together
"we stick together like sellotape"
sellotape by thestrangegirl February 5, 2018
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