hundred-mile-an-hour tape
n.— «A paramedic’s sure hands took my pulse and felt up and down my extremities for other injuries. “Hundred mile an hour” tape—similar to electrical tape—temporarily sealed my abdominal wound.» —“Training To Meet Tragedy Writer Finds It Takes Guts To Be A ‘Victim’” by Alisha Hipwell Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pennsylvania) July 16, 2003. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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