band-aid

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Alternative spellings 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.3.2 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Translations

[edit] English

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[edit] Alternative spellings

• bandaid
• Band-Aid

[edit] Etymology

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

[edit] Noun

band-aid (plural band-aids)

1. (capitalized, trademark) A particular brand of adhesive bandage.
2. (North American) 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.
3. (North American) 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.

[edit] Synonyms

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

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[edit] Verb

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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