band-aid

• bandaid

Genericized trademark from Band-Aid, registered and coined by Johnson & Johnson in 1924 as band(age) +‎ aid.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbændeɪd/

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band-aid (plural band-aids)

1. (Australia, Canada, US, Philippines) 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. (Australia, Canada, US, Philippines, informal) A temporary or makeshift solution to a problem, created ad hoc and often with a lack of foresight. [from 1968]
   • 1968, United Church Observer, n 15 (March), p 36:

     It was another of those political band-aids patted over a minor sore.

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

• adhesive bandage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

band-aid (third-person singular simple present band-aids, present participle band-aiding, simple past and past participle band-aided)

1. To apply an adhesive bandage.

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

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

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

   • 1990 February 4, Leonard Tirado, “Privatized 'Recovery' Versus Collective Action”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 19:

     This is where the addictions theorists and therapists fail (perhaps for lack of nerve): they never strongly suggest that their critique should become the basis for concerted, collective therapy as well as individual therapy. They can't. To do so would mean risking their own dependency upon the system and upon the rewards they receive for band-aiding it.

• bandeide (adapted spelling)

Unadapted borrowing from English band-aid, genericized trademark from Band-Aid, registered and coined by Johnson & Johnson in 1924.

band-aid m (plural band-aids)

1. band-aid (adhesive bandage)

   Synonym: penso