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bumper sticker

bumper sticker noun: an adhesive label or decal, usually applied to the bumper or back end of an automobile, and displaying a short political, promotional, philosophical, or humorous message.

bumper sticker: an adhesive label or decal, usually applied to the bumper or back end of an automobile, and...
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Noun

bumper sticker (plural bumper stickers)

  1. (US) An adhesive label or decal, usually applied to the bumper or back end of an automobile, and displaying a short political, promotional, philosophical, or humorous message.
    • He has a bumper sticker on his van that reads "faster than a speeding ticket".
    • My space in the teachers' parking lot was next to Henry's. His back bumper had two stickers: "I'd Rather Be Golfing" and "He who dies with the most toys WINS!"2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.2, at p.35
    Synonyms:
    car-sticker
  2. (US, figuratively) Canned insight; a slogan or saying that is trite or superficial.
    • bumper-sticker philosophy
    • "It's like a status thing, you know? 'My kid's special because he's got a peanut allergy.' I'm surprised they don't have a bumper sticker for it."2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.7, at p.157

bumper sticker meaning in Persian

bumper sticker in Persian

sticker
برچسب سپر barčasb-e separ

Examples of bumper sticker in a sentence

  • Many longtime residents strongly oppose the extremism of the newcomers, sporting bumper stickers that say, “Don't Californicate Colorado.”2012 [2001], Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 65:
  • Are bumper stickers, as a folk art, on the decline?2012 September 21, Pagan Kennedy, “Who Made That Bumper Sticker?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Synonyms of bumper sticker

Forms of bumper sticker

pluralbumper stickers

Origin of bumper sticker

From bumper + sticker.

Questions about bumper sticker

What does bumper sticker mean?
Bumper sticker means an adhesive label or decal, usually applied to the bumper or back end of an automobile, and displaying a short political, promotional, philosophical, or humorous message.
What is bumper sticker in Persian?
Bumper sticker in Persian is برچسب سپر (barčasb-e separ). See Bumper sticker meaning in Persian.
How do you use bumper sticker in a sentence?
Many longtime residents strongly oppose the extremism of the newcomers, sporting bumper stickers that say, “Don't Californicate Colorado.”
What part of speech is bumper sticker?
Bumper sticker is a noun.
What is the plural of bumper sticker?
The plural of bumper sticker is bumper stickers.

Words near bumper sticker in the dictionary

  1. bumper crop
  2. bumper crops
  3. bumper jack
  4. bumper music
  5. bumper pool
  6. bumper sticker
  7. bumper stickers
  8. bumper to bumper
  9. bumper-to-bumper
  10. bumpered
  11. bumperette

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