tape off

tape off

To form a barrier to something or some area by surrounding or blocking it with (usually brightly colored) tape. A noun or pronoun can be used between "tape" and "off." City regulators have taped the building off ahead of its demolition. Make sure you tape off the crime scene so no one contaminates the evidence before the detectives arrive.
See also: off, tape
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

tape off

v.
To restrict or reserve some location or area by encircling it with tape: The police taped off the crime scene. We taped the bench off so that no one would sit on the wet paint.
See also: off, tape
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • tape out
  • tape up
  • taped up
  • cordon off
  • involve with
  • involve with (someone or something)
  • involved with
  • arch over
  • arrange for
  • arrange some music for
References in periodicals archive
Eventually, the attending nurse had to take the tape off. But in the process of removing it, a piece of the baby's skin was peeled off with the tape.
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Firefighter Pete Walters of Brierley Hill fire station said: "We had to make the area safe and tape off the road." He said there had been a significant spillage of coolant from the car.
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INVESTIGATION: Police forensics officers tape off the wreckage at Kenfig Nature Reserve, Porthcawl, of one of the two single-engine elementary RAF trainers that collided yesterday PICTURE: Huw Evans
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The researchers tried pulling tape off surfaces using a machine that also measured the forces involved.
A sticky issue
Estranged Heather, 39, produced the tape off camera during a day of interviews in which she ranted she had been pushed to the brink of suicide by death threats and smears.
HEATHER'S HATE TAPE; EXCLUSIVE Off-camera during a day of unhinged ranting on TV, Mrs Macca plays a recording of Paul admitting that he hit Linda
Staff at the Cook Shop in genteel Macclesfield, Cheshire, raced to turn the tape off as it switched from onion chopping to heavy breathing.
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