wheatpaste

See also: wheat paste

English

Noun

wheatpaste (countable and uncountable, plural wheatpastes)

  1. Alternative form of wheat paste.

Verb

wheatpaste (third-person singular simple present wheatpastes, present participle wheatpasting, simple past and past participle wheatpasted)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To put up posters in public spaces as a form of activism.
    • 1990 December 23, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 23, page 13:
      Politically irreverent lesbian age 25 seeks other lezzie(s) to frolic, argue, and wheatpaste with.
    • 1991 February 11, Ed Boyce, “Bashers With Badges”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 29, page 6:
      Jen Wofford, a local activist, was arrested and detained last September for wheatpasting Queer Nation posters.
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