band-aid

Etymology
From the trademark , registered in 1924 by Johnson & Johnson, from +. The sense "temporary solution" was first used in 1968 in Canada.

Noun

 * 1)  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)  A temporary or makeshift solution to a problem, created ad hoc and often with a lack of foresight.
 * 3) * 1968, United Church Observer, n 15 (March), p 36:
 * It was another of those political band-aids patted over a minor sore.

Synonyms

 * : adhesive bandage, plaster (UK), sticking plaster (UK), Elastoplast (UK)
 * : hack

Translations

 * Arabic: ضِمَادَة, لاصِق طِبِّي
 * Gulf Arabic: لزاق, بلاستر
 * Belarusian: лейкапла́стыр, пла́стыр
 * Bislama: banded
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:, leukoplast
 * Danish: plaster,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:, sparadrapo
 * Estonian: plaaster
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: სალბუნი
 * German:, , ,  Wundschnellverband,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:, , gyorstapasz, ,
 * Ingrian: plaasteri
 * Irish: plástar, greimlín
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, バンドエイド
 * Korean:, 밴드에이드
 * Lao:
 * Macedonian: фластер
 * Maori: tāpi
 * Mongolian:
 * Norman: empliâtre
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: plaster
 * Occitan:
 * Polish:, przylepiec
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sardinian: tzerotu, cerotu
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: фла̏стер
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: leukoplast
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:,  , ,  ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: koritas
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: лейкопла́стир, пла́стир
 * Vietnamese: băng cá nhân, băng keo cá nhân
 * Wolof: esparadaraa


 * Finnish:
 * German: Behelfslösung,, , Übergangslösung
 * Hungarian:, hevenyészett/átmeneti/ideiglenes/kisegítő megoldás
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: paños calientes
 * Swedish:

Verb

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

Translations

 * Dutch: pleister plakken
 * Finnish:
 * Maori: tāpi
 * Norwegian: plastre


 * Hungarian: hevenyészett/átmeneti/ideiglenes/kisegítő megoldást ad,
 * Russian: ,

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  adhesive bandage