English

Band-aid

Alternative forms

• bandaid
• Band-Aid

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 (often used with a negative connotation of 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

Verb

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.

Translations

Portuguese

Noun

band-aid m (plural band-aids)

1. band-aid (adhesive bandage)

Synonyms

• penso