A trademark used for a fastening tape consisting of a strip of nylon with a surface of minute hooks that fasten to a corresponding strip with a surface of uncut pile, used especially on cloth products, such as outerwear, luggage, and athletic shoes. This trademark sometimes occurs in print in lowercase:“dart boards with velcro balls for darts” (American Banker). It also occurs as a verb: “We might Velcro the camera to the window, to steady it” (Washington Post). The trademark occurs in figurative contexts as well:
維可牢：一種尼龍刺粘搭鏈的商標，該搭鏈由一條表面有細小鉤子的尼龍條與表面有毛圈的對應(yīng)的尼龍條粘合面構(gòu)成，尤指用于布制品上，如外套、箱包以及田徑鞋等。該商標有時用小寫母排?。骸霸跀S鏢游戲中用的帶維可牢球的靶” （美國銀行家）。它也以動詞的形式出現(xiàn)： “我們可以把照相機用維可牢粘在窗上，使其固定下來” （華盛頓郵報）。該商標也同樣出現(xiàn)在象征性的語境中：
“Many colleges and universities have adopted a Velcro approach to curriculum design: sticking additional requirements on a base of distribution requirements”(New York Times)“In the early stages of a romance—the Velcro period—intimacy is rarely an issue”(Chicago Tribune)
“許多學(xué)院和大學(xué)已采用了一種設(shè)置課程的維可牢方法：在分類要求的上插入附加的要求”(紐約時報)“在浪漫文學(xué)的早期階段——維可牢時期——較少描述親昵的行為”(芝加哥論壇報)