Band-Aid
[band-eyd]
- a brand of adhesive bandage with a gauze pad in the center, used to cover minor abrasions and cuts.
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- (often lowercase) Informal. a makeshift, limited, or temporary aid or solution that does not satisfy the basic or long-range need: The proposed reform isn't thorough enough to be more than just a band-aid.
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- (often lowercase) Informal. serving as a makeshift, limited, or temporary aid or solution: band-aid measures to solve a complex problem.
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Origin of Band-Aid
1965–70 for defs 2, 3
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Contemporary Examples
Unfortunately, the best response we can muster might be much harder than a band-aid or hidden camera.
Hell, even the band-aid of busing was enough to spark a huge backlash to civil rights laws.
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Or, we can pull off the Band-Aid attaching the two sides of banking.
Instead of building up and having wedding promos and having it be this whole event, it was like ripping a Band-Aid off.
Historical Examples
He had torn open a Band-Aid and was trying to fasten it around his finger.
The Last StrawWilliam J. Smith
Band-Aid
- trademark a gauze surgical dressing backed by adhesive tape
- (sometimes not capitals) informal somethinɡ that provides a temporary solution to a problem
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Word Origin and History for band-aid
Band-Aid
n.
trademark registered 1924 by Johnson & Johnson for a stick-on gauze pad or strip. See band (n.1) + aid (n.). The British equivalent was Elastoplast. Figurative sense of "temporary or makeshift solution to a problem, pallative" (often lower case, sometimes bandaid) is first recorded 1968; as an adjective, from 1970.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
Band-Aid
(bănd′ād′)- A trademark for an adhesive bandage with a gauze pad in the center, employed to protect minor wounds.
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