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stick plaster

stick plaster is the alternative form of sticking plaster.

Meaning of sticking plaster

Noun

sticking plaster (plural sticking plasters)

  1. (New Zealand, UK) An adhesive bandage used in dressing wounds.
    • 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.1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 3
  2. (idiomatic, informal) An inadequate solution to a serious problem.
    • In a statement, Khan called the deal a sticking plaster and said: "The Government is, in effect, making ordinary Londoners pay the cost for doing the right thing on COVID-19.2020 June 3, “Network News: Khan agrees £1.6bn "sticking plaster" for TfL”, in Rail, page 16

Forms of stick plaster

pluralstick plasters

Questions about stick plaster

What is stick plaster the alternative form of?
Stick plaster is the alternative form of sticking plaster.

Words near stick plaster in the dictionary

  1. stick out like a sore thumb
  2. stick out like dog's balls
  3. stick out one's tongue
  4. stick phone
  5. stick phones
  6. stick plaster
  7. stick plasters
  8. stick puller
  9. stick pullers
  10. stick pusher
  11. stick pushers

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