tape

1. (informal, by extension) Any video or audio recording, regardless of the method used to produce it.Examples: "“It was one of the most severe beatings they’ve seen on tape,” an FDNY insider said, recalling the reaction by brass who viewed video of the bloody fisticuffs."broadlycountableinformaluncountable

2. (informal) An unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus.Examples: "Old couples will sometimes play tapes at each other during a fight."countableinformaluncountable

3. (trading, from ticker tape) The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades.Examples: "Don’t fight the tape."countableuncountable

4. (ice hockey) The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of a hockey stickExamples: "His pass was right on the tape."countableuncountable

5. (printing, historical) A strong flexible band rotating on pulleys for directing the sheets in a printing machine.countablehistoricaluncountable

6. (possible, obsolete, UK, slang) Liquor, alcoholic drink, especially gin or brandy. (Especially in prison slang or among domestic servants and women.)Examples: "white tape, Holland tape, blue tape (gin); red tape (brandy or wine)"; "Madam Gin has been christened by as many names as a German princess : every petty chandler's shop will sell you Sky-blue, and every night-cellar furnish you with Holland tape, three yards a penny. Nor can I see the difference […]"; "[…] who is now puffing his pipe and sipping his grog, as unconcerned as a Dutch fiddler at a merry-making, has no business here selling his cheese and candles in the day-time, and his yards of tape in the evening: […] and now then for the tape-shop. […]"UKcountableobsoleteslanguncountable