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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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, Canada, Philippines, US
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Synonyms: adhesive bandage, Elastoplast, plaster, sticking plaster
Antonyms: none provided
A temporary or makeshift solution to a problem, created ad hoc and often with a lack of foresight.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, Canada, Philippines, US, idiomatic, informal
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Synonyms: hack
Antonyms: none provided
To apply an adhesive bandage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- As a school nurse, Pat was used to band-aiding lots of scraped knees and elbows.
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To apply a makeshift fix; to jury-rig.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, figuratively, transitive
Examples
- Rather than fix the code, we just band-aided the problem by hiding the error message.
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Synonyms: none provided
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Genericized trademark from Band-Aid, registered and coined by Johnson & Johnson in 1924 as band(age) + aid.