sticker

[ stik-er ]

noun

1. a person or thing that sticks. stick.
2. an adhesive label.
3. Informal. sticker price.
4. something, as a problem or riddle, that puzzles or nonpluses one.
5. Slang. a knife, especially one used as a weapon by a criminal.
6. a worker who kills animals in a slaughterhouse by piercing the jugular vein with a pointed instrument.
7. a bur, thorn, or the like.

adjective

1. of or relating to the sticker price of an automobile:

   Customers are experiencing sticker shock at the high price of new cars.

verb (used with object)

1. to place a sticker on.

sticker

/ ˈstɪkə /

noun

1. an adhesive label, poster, or paper
2. a person or thing that sticks
3. a persevering or industrious person
4. something prickly, such as a thorn, that clings to one's clothing, etc
5. informal.
   something that perplexes
6. informal.
   a knife used for stabbing or piercing

Word History and Origins

Origin of sticker¹

First recorded in 1575–85; stick ² + -er ¹

Example Sentences

At the world’s largest technology show, nearly a year after the pandemic started, the most innovative products on offer were a sticker to track vital signs to detect covid-19 and futuristic masks.

From Washington Post

In addition to this, you can also use the “Question” sticker in Instagram Stories to ask for feedback.

From Search Engine Watch

That means no chat wallpapers or quoting stickers on replies, for example.

From Popular-Science

The company has also been rolling out new features like wallpaper and animated stickers.

From Vox

Fuller plays with a sticker that says “Play Like a Girl” on her football helmet.

From Washington Post

After all, there is only one sure-fire message that I can send by putting a Coexist sticker on the back of my car.

From The Daily Beast

Strangely, the Coexist sticker itself illustrates this whole point rather nicely.

From The Daily Beast

Bored, she dropped the sticker, and another child picked it up and copied her.

From The Daily Beast

She picked up a corner of a cyan-blue UNICEF sticker and stuck it over her mouth.

From The Daily Beast

The comic in the middle has a 9.0 sticker on the top left corner and a note that says “WHITE pages.”

From The Daily Beast

He thinks, as I did, that the monograph of Sticker in Nothnagel is the best review of hay fever that we have.

From Project Gutenberg

You can work your passage out, and I could get you into a store at Melbourne, and you're such a sticker, you'd be sure to get on.

From Project Gutenberg

She went soon afterward and when she returned she had another cap, a sane, respectable cap, one which was not a "sticker."

From Project Gutenberg

Thick groups were standing about the hoardings, reading a yellow placard, which was still wet with the paste of the bill-sticker.

From Project Gutenberg

Mr. Mavor stated that the latter proposition was the sticker, and a great many voices said that they would never consent.

From Project Gutenberg

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