sticking plaster

English

Alternative forms

stick plaster (UK)

Noun

sticking plaster (plural sticking plasters)

(New Zealand, Britain) An adhesive bandage used in dressing wounds
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 3:
  As I live, these covered parts of him were checkered with the same squares as his face; his back, too, was all over the same dark squares; he seemed to have been in a Thirty Years’ War, and just escaped from it with a sticking-plaster shirt.

Synonyms

adhesive bandage
band-aid
Elastoplast

Translations

adhesive bandage — see band-aid

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