airplane glue

noun

: a type of clear, fast-drying, liquid adhesive used especially for adjoining small plastic parts (such as those of a model airplane kit)

The company's products, which also include authentic scaled-down replicas of ground vehicles and satellites, are far removed from anything a parent might buy at a hobby shop along with a tube of airplane glue.

—Columbia (Missouri) Daily Tribune, 4 Jan. 2011

Word History

First Known Use

1936, in the meaning defined above

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