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paste

noun

  1. substance that behaves as a solid until a sufficiently large load or stress is applied, at which point it flows like a fluid
L24856 on Wikidata ↗

verb

  1. To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video) previously copied or cut from somewhere else
  2. attach using paste
  3. get beat up
L3779 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈpæsteɪ/ / /ˈpɑsteɪ/ / /peɪst/

noun

Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Italian paste (“pastas”).

  1. plural of pasta

verb

Etymology: Probably an alteration of baste (“beat”) influenced by some sense of the noun.

  1. To strike or beat someone or something.

    He got up and pasted Byfield in the mouth.

  2. To defeat decisively or by a large margin.