Tipp-Ex

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Tipp-Ex

n
Brit a liquid, usually white, used to cover mistakes in writing or typing, which dries to form a new surface that can be written or typed on
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Tipp-Ex

® [ˈtɪpeks]
A. NTippex ® m, corrector m
B. VT (also Tipp-Ex out, Tipp-Ex over) → corregir con Tippex
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Tipp-Ex®

[ˈtɪpɛks] n (British)Tipp-Ex® m
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Tipp-Ex®

nTipp-Ex® nt
vt to Tipp-Ex (out)mit Tipp-Ex® löschen
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Tipp-Ex

® [ˈtɪpɛks] n (Brit) → liquido correttore
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Former Labour Home Secretary David Blunkett wanted a question mark after European Union so "we can Tippex it out in due course".
Perfectly pale Bright white nails can be a challenge (sometimes it looks like you got bored at work and applied two coats of Tippex), but pale can be interesting.
He is also in a bit of a grump with his board about lack of investment, so in that regard he could just reclaim Rafa Benitez's press conference minutes from the last three seasons and merely Tippex his name out and insert his own, assuring a smooth transition in that area.
That's real ink on real paper and if you made a mistake it was either Tippex or start the whole freakin' page again.
I reckon that when Theresa May heads off to Brussels with her White Paper Mr Barnier may request she puts a bottle of Tippex in her handbag!
Then came a real rocketship to the moon along with word processors that made Tippex and carboncopies redundant.
A desk of your own, the very same desk, every day, with a drawer or two for the Tippex and the tissues, offers much the same human comforts.
Awgrymwn gael peth sydd ddim yn cynnwys baner Lloegr jyst rhag ofn bod Huw Tippex o gwmpas, ac yn eich camgymryd am gefnogwr Lloegr.
He funded his new life by selling Brenda's jewellery and using her bank cards, and used Tippex to remove her name from the deeds of the cottage.
He wrote: "Tippex - throw a bottle of the stuff over the car, it will look ridiculous (especially if it's a shiny boy racer-ish car), it will take hours to clean it (or money in the car wash) and, without looking closely, it will look like bird poo."
But anomalies were found, and 15 of them had been crudely altered using Tippex.

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