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desticker

desticker verb: to remove a sticker from.

Verb

desticker (third-person singular simple present destickers, present participle destickering, simple past and past participle destickered)

  1. (rare, transitive) To remove a sticker from.
    • Going through store, straightening, putting away books left lying around by customers. Tuesdays: New PLU list arrives, telling us which books are on the bestseller fixtures. These must be stickered/destickered.2002, Gayle Backstrom, I'd Rather be Working, page 230
    • Once the load has cooled, it should be destickered as soon as possible, wrapped and held in dry storage, to prevent any uptake of moisture, until being forwarded to the customer.2012, R. B. Keey, T. A. G. Langrish, J. C. F. Walker, Kiln-Drying of Lumber, page 243

Forms of desticker

third-person singular presentdestickers
present participledestickering
past participledestickered
pastdestickered

Origin of desticker

From de- + sticker.

Questions about desticker

What does desticker mean?
Desticker means to remove a sticker from.
What part of speech is desticker?
Desticker is a verb.
What is the past tense of desticker?
The past tense of desticker is destickered.

Words near desticker in the dictionary

  1. desterilizes
  2. desterilizing
  3. desthiobiotin
  4. desthiobiotinylated
  5. desthiobiotinylation
  6. desticker
  7. destickered
  8. destickering
  9. destickers
  10. Destiel
  11. destigmatisation

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