masking tape

1. 1.

   adhesive tape used to cover the part of a surface that should not be painted

   Synonymsmasking paper

   Broaderadhesive tape

Questions about masking tape

What does masking tape mean?

masking tape means "adhesive tape used to cover the part of a surface that should not be painted".

What is another word for masking tape?

Close synonyms include masking paper. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is masking tape a common word?

masking tape is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.