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band-aid

/ˈbændeɪd/

noun

Meaning

  • 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.

  • A temporary or makeshift solution to a problem, created ad hoc and often with a lack of foresight.

Synonyms

Elastoplast,
adhesive bandage,
plaster,
sticking plaster,
hack

verb

Meaning

  • To apply an adhesive bandage.

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

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

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