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sticking plaster

sticking plaster noun: an adhesive bandage used in dressing wounds.

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

sticking plaster meaning in Tamil

sticking plaster in Tamil

ஒட்டுப்பசைத் துணி

Synonyms of sticking plaster

Forms of sticking plaster

pluralsticking plasters
alternative UKstick plaster

Questions about sticking plaster

What does sticking plaster mean?
Sticking plaster means an adhesive bandage used in dressing wounds.
What is sticking plaster in Tamil?
Sticking plaster in Tamil is ஒட்டுப்பசைத் துணி. See Sticking plaster meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sticking plaster?
Sticking plaster is a noun.
What is the plural of sticking plaster?
The plural of sticking plaster is sticking plasters.

Words near sticking plaster in the dictionary

  1. sticking out a mile
  2. sticking out like a sore thumb
  3. sticking out like dog's balls
  4. sticking place
  5. sticking places
  6. sticking plaster
  7. sticking plasters
  8. sticking point
  9. sticking points
  10. sticking someone on
  11. sticking the knife in

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