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[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Malapropism is probably too strong a term, I admit, but the actual origin is likely a play off duck tape:

"Duck tape" is recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary as having been in use since 1899 and "duct tape" (described as "perhaps an alteration of earlier duck tape") since 1965.

(via wikipedia)