band-aid

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Band-aid

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Singular
band-aid

Plural
band-aids

band-aid (plural band-aids)

  1. (US) 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. (capitalized) A particular brand of adhesive bandage.
  3. (US) A temporary or makeshift solution to a problem, created ad hoc (often used with a negative connotation of a lack of foresight)
    The proposed pension reforms are just a band-aid that won't fix the underlying problems in the system.

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Infinitive
to band-aid

Third person singular
band-aids

Simple past
band-aided

Past participle
band-aided

Present participle
band-aiding

to 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.

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