sticking plaster
English
Alternative forms
- stick plaster (UK)
Noun
sticking plaster (plural sticking plasters)
- (New Zealand, Britain) An adhesive bandage used in dressing wounds
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 3:
- As I live, these covered parts of him were checkered with the same squares as his face; his back, too, was all over the same dark squares; he seemed to have been in a Thirty Years’ War, and just escaped from it with a sticking-plaster shirt.
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Synonyms
- adhesive bandage
- band-aid
- Elastoplast
Translations
adhesive bandage — see band-aid
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