band-aid

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Band-aid

Alternative forms

• bandaid
• Band-Aid

Etymology

Trademark Band-Aid registered 1924 by Johnson & Johnson. Sense of a temporary solution 1968, Canada.

Noun

band-aid (plural band-aids)

1. (North America) An adhesive bandage, a small piece of fabric or plastic that may be stuck to the skin in order to temporarily cover a small wound.
2. (North America) A temporary or makeshift solution to a problem, created ad hoc (often used with a negative connotation of a lack of foresight)
   • 1968, United Church Observer, n 15 (March), p 36:

     It was another of those political band-aids patted over a minor sore.

Synonyms

• (small adhesive bandage): adhesive bandage, plaster, sticking plaster, Elastoplast
• (makeshift solution): hack

Translations

adhesive bandage

Chinese: Mandarin: 創可貼 (zh), 创可贴 (zh) (chuàngkětiē), 邦迪 (zh) (bāngdí), OK繃 (zh) Czech: náplast (cs) f. Dutch: pleister (nl) Finnish: laastari (fi) French: pansement (fr) m., sparadrap (fr) m. German: Pflaster (de) n. Italian: cerotto (it) m. Japanese: バンドエイド (ja) (bandoeido) Korean: 밴드에이드 (ko) (baendeu-eideu)

Norwegian: plaster (no) Polish: plaster (pl) m. Portuguese: penso (pt) m., band-aid (pt) m. Russian: лейкопластырь (ru) (lejkoplástyr') m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: фла̏стер (sh) m. Roman: flȁster (sh) m. Spanish: curita f. (Latin America), parche curita (Chile), tirita f., apósito m. (Spain), esparadrapo m. Swedish: plåster (sv) n.

temporary or makeshift solution

Finnish: paikkaus (fi)

Russian: (informal) заплатка (ru) f.

Verb

band-aid (third-person singular simple present band-aids, present participle band-aiding, simple past and past participle band-aided)

1. To apply an adhesive bandage.

   As a school nurse, Pat was used to bandaiding lots of scraped knees and elbows.

2. To apply a makeshift fix; to jury-rig.

   Rather than fix the code, we just band-aided the problem by hiding the error message.

Translations

to apply an adhesive bandage

Dutch: pleister plakken (nl) Finnish: laastaroida (fi)

Norwegian: plastre (no)

to apply a makeshift fix; to jury-rig

Russian: (informal) залатать (ru), (slang, computing) пофиксить (ru)