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band-aid

/ˈbændeɪd/

noun 2
verb 2
forms 3

noun2

(US, Australia) 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.
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(informal) A temporary or makeshift solution to a problem, created ad hoc and often with a lack of foresight.
- It was another of those political band-aids patted over a minor sore. — 1968

verb2

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To apply an adhesive bandage.
- As a school nurse, Pat was used to band-aiding lots of scraped knees and elbows.
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(figurative) To apply a makeshift fix; to jury-rig.
- Rather than fix the code, we just band-aided the problem by hiding the error message.

forms

band-aided · band-aiding · band-aids

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