A cassette tape containing samples of a musician's work by way of demonstration. / A videotape containing samples of a broadcaster's work by way of demonstration.

A pressure-sensitive tape used for closing or sealing corrugated fiberboard boxes.

The practice by one or more traders of buying and selling the same financial instruments in order to create artificial market activity, making the instruments appear in demand; wash trading.

Synonym of tape painting

To engage in tape painting; to engage in wash trades. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see paint, tape.

plural of ticker-tape parade

A parade celebrating some major event in which the streets are littered with confetti.

(US, idiomatic) To reduce bureaucracy.

(sometimes proscribed) Alternative form of ticker-tape parade.

(idiomatic) To repeat exactly what one previously said or did.