sticking plaster

English

Alternative forms

• stick plaster (UK)

Noun

sticking plaster (plural sticking plasters)

1. (New Zealand, British) An adhesive bandage used in dressing wounds
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 3:

     As I live, these covered parts of him were checkered with the same squares as his face; his back, too, was all over the same dark squares; he seemed to have been in a Thirty Years’ War, and just escaped from it with a sticking-plaster shirt.

Synonyms

• adhesive bandage
• band-aid
• Elastoplast

Translations

adhesive bandage — see band-aid