Velcro

English

Etymology

Blend of French velours (“velvet”) +‎ French crochet (“hook”)

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛlkɹoʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈvɛlkɹəʊ/
• Hyphenation: Vel‧cro

Proper noun

Velcro

1. A fastener consisting of two strips of fabric, one covered with minute fiber hooks and the other with tiny fiber loops, which stick strongly together but can be pulled apart.

   Synonym: hook-and-loop fastener

Derived terms

• Velcro dog

Translations

fastener

• Afrikaans: kleefstrook
• Arabic: فِيلْكْرُو m (fīlkrū)
• Bulgarian: Велкро n (Velkro)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 魔術貼 / 魔术贴 (mo¹ seot⁶ tip³)

  Mandarin: 魔術貼 / 魔术贴 (zh) (móshù tiē)

• Czech: suchý zip m
• Dutch: velcro (nl), klittenband (nl)
• Esperanto: lapo, lapfermilo
• Estonian: krõps, krõpsud (et) pl
• Finnish: tarranauha (fi)
• French: velcro (fr) m
• German: (two strips collectively, the mechanism) Klettverschluss (de) m; (each of the two strips) Klettband n
• Hebrew: צַמְדָּן (tsamdán)
• Hindi: वेल्क्रो (velkro)
• Hungarian: tépőzár (hu)
• Icelandic: franskur rennilás
• Interlingua: velcro
• Italian: velcro (it)
• Japanese: ベルク (beruku), 面ファスナー (ja) (men-fasunā), ベルクロ (berukuro)
• Korean: 벨크로 (belkeuro)
• Maori: papanga piripiri
• Norwegian: borrelås m
• Polish: rzep (pl)
• Portuguese: velcro m
• Romanian: arici (ro) m, scai (ro) m
• Russian: липу́чка (ru) f (lipúčka), липу́чки (ru) f pl (lipúčki) (usually plural), застёжка-липу́чка f (zastjóžka-lipúčka)
• Serbo-Croatian: чичак трака, čičak traka
• Spanish: velcro (es)
• Swedish: kardborreband n
• Turkish: cırt (tr), cırtcırt

Verb

Velcro (third-person singular simple present Velcros, present participle Velcroing, simple past and past participle Velcroed)

1. To fasten with Velcro.
   • 1988, Tom Leopold, Almost Like Being Here‎^[1], Dutton, →ISBN, page 8:

     He was standing on a chair Velcroing red balloons to himself.

   • 2000, George P. Pelecanos, Shame the Devil, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 58:

     He had a seat in a leather recliner and hit the remote, which he had Velcroed to the chair.

   • 2008, Sean Murphy, The Time of New Weather‎^[2], →ISBN, page 8:

     Toasters and microwaves were Velcroed to kitchen counters. Televisions and VCRs were Velcroed to their stands.

   • 2008, Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 28:

     Two officers stormed into I-tier, still Velcroing their flak jackets.

Translations

to fasten with velcro

• Finnish: kiinnittää tarranauhalla
• French: velcroter (fr)
• Turkish: cırtcırtlamak

Anagrams

• Colver, clover, Clover