band-aid

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band-aid englanniksi

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

  3. 1968, ''United Church Observer'', n 15 (March), p 36:

  4. It was another of those political band-aids patted over a minor sore.
  5. To apply an adhesive bandage.

  6. ''As a school nurse, Pat was used to bandaiding lots of scraped knees and elbows.''

  7. To apply a makeshift fix; to jury-rig.

  8. ''Rather than fix the code, we just band-aided the problem by hiding the error message.''

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