band-aid

 

• bandaid

Genericization of the trademark Band-Aid, registered and coined by Johnson & Johnson in 1924 as a clipping of bandage + aid.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbændeɪd/

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band-aid (plural band-aids)

1. (Australia, Canada, US, Philippines) 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. (Australia, Canada, US, Philippines, informal) A temporary or makeshift solution to a problem, created ad hoc and often with a lack of foresight. [from 1968]
   • 1968, United Church Observer, n 15 (March), p 36:

     It was another of those political band-aids patted over a minor sore.

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

• band-aid solution
• rip off the band-aid

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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.

• bandeide

Unadapted borrowing from English band-aid.

band-aid m (plural band-aids)

1. band-aid (adhesive bandage)

   Synonym: penso