Word.ws English Dictionary

tape up

tape up verb: to repair using tape.

Verb

tape up (third-person singular simple present tapes up, present participle taping up, simple past and past participle taped up)

  1. (transitive) To repair using tape.
  2. To use tape to restrict the movement of muscles, putatively in order to aid healing after workouts.
  3. To use tape on the fingers to protect them from gritstone rash.

Forms of tape up

third-person singular presenttapes up
present participletaping up
past participletaped up
pasttaped up

Questions about tape up

What does tape up mean?
Tape up means to repair using tape.
What part of speech is tape up?
Tape up is a verb.
What is the past tense of tape up?
The past tense of tape up is taped up.

Words near tape up in the dictionary

  1. tape safe
  2. tape safes
  3. tape transport
  4. tape tree
  5. tape trees
  6. tape up
  7. tape-out
  8. tape-outs
  9. tape-record
  10. tape-recorded
  11. tape-recording

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tape up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “tape up.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/tape_up. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.