Band-Aid Definition
băndād
noun
A bandage of this type.
Webster's New World
A temporary, superficial remedy for a serious or complex problem.
Webster's New World
Alternative spelling of band-aid.
Wiktionary
adjective
Providing only temporary, superficial relief.
Webster's New World
verb
To apply an adhesive bandage.
As a school nurse, Pat was used to bandaiding lots of scraped knees and elbows.
Wiktionary
To apply a makeshift fix; to jury-rig.
Rather than fix the code, we just band-aided the problem by hiding the error message.
Wiktionary
other
A trademark for an adhesive bandage with a gauze pad in the center, used to protect minor wounds.
American Heritage Medicine
Origin of Band-Aid
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From the trademark Band-Aid, registered in 1924 by Johnson & Johnson. The sense "temporary solution" was first used in 1968 in Canada.
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