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sticking plasters

sticking plasters is the plural 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 sticking plasters

alternative formstick plasters

Questions about sticking plasters

What is sticking plasters the plural of?
Sticking plasters is the plural of sticking plaster.

Words near sticking plasters in the dictionary

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

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