band-aid

Meanings

Noun

• 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.
• A temporary or makeshift solution to a problem, created ad hoc and often with a lack of foresight.

Verb

• To apply an adhesive bandage.
• To apply a makeshift fix; to jury-rig.

Related

Similar words

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

Origin

• From the trademark Band-Aid, registered in 1924 by Johnson & Johnson, from bandage + aid. The sense "temporary solution" was first used in 1968 in Canada.