band-aid

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Pronunciation

• (America) IPA: /ˈbændeɪd/

Noun

band-aid (plural band-aids)

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

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

Synonyms

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

Translations

• French: pansement, sparadrap
• German: Pflaster, Heftpflaster
• Italian: cerotto
• Portuguese: penso, band-aid
• Russian: лейкопла́стырь
• Spanish: (Latin America) curita, (Chile) parche curita, tirita, (Spain) apósito, esparadrapo

Translations

• German: Behelfslösung, Behelf, Notlösung, Übergangslösung
• Russian: (informal) запла́тка

Verb

band-aid (band-aids, present participle band-aiding; 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.

Translations

• Russian: залата́ть

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