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The hopeful act of reversing tape, as if adhesive ever forgives.
means To remove or peel away tape that was previously applied to something.
from A modern back-formation: the prefix un- (Old English, meaning reverse) bolted onto tape, itself from Old French tape, a strip of fabric.
Residue truthUntaping rarely undoes the sticky ghost left behind.
Newish wordMostly informal, absent from many dictionaries.
Sibling wordsCousins with unzip, unglue, and unstick.