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ˈBand-Aid, n. and a. orig. U.S.
Also with small initials or as one word.
A. n.
1. A proprietary name for a type of sticking-plaster with a gauze pad. Also, a strip of Band-Aid.
1924Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 4 Nov. tm27/1 Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, N.J...Band-Aid..protective surgical dressing in the form of a bandage. Claims use since November, 1920. 1926–7Army & Navy Stores Catal. 461/1 Band Aid..‘a protective dressing for cuts and wounds’..tin 1/–. 1933Trade Marks Jrnl. 22 Feb. 213 Band-Aid... Medicated dressings for human use. Johnson & Johnson (Great Britain) Limited,..Slough, Buckinghamshire; Manufacturers. 1948‘P. Quentin’ Run to Death xx. 147, I..found a band aid. I applied it neatly over the burn. 1958R. Chandler Playback xix. 157 He was as adhesive as a band-aid. 1964Trade Marks Jrnl. 23 Sept. 1532/2 Band-aid... Pharmaceutical and sanitary substances;..medical and surgical plasters, materials prepared for bandaging;..first aid boxes sold complete. Johnson & Johnson,..New Brunswick, State of Jersey, United States of America; manufacturers and merchants. 1976N. Thornburg Cutter & Bone xi. 267 Why not aspirin? Or a Band-Aid? 1983Listener 30 June 31/3 There was some marvellous singing and playing, including footage of Alfred Brendel playing ineffable Liszt with Band-Aids on most of his fingers.
2. fig. A temporary or makeshift solution to a problem, etc.; a palliative.
1968United Church Observer 15 Mar. 36/1 It was another of those political band-aids patted over a minor sore. 1974R. M. Pirsig Zen & Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1976) I. v. 61 Consoling words are more for strangers, for hospitals, not kin. Little emotional Band-Aids like that aren't what he needs. 1981Sunday Times 12 July 17/4 So much social work is just Band-Aid. 1985Nat. Westminster Bank Q. Rev. May 4 Successive applications of bandaids of differing descriptions is to be preferred to the application of mere common sense.
B. adj. Makeshift or temporary; palliative.
1970Times 20 Apr. 19 Better and better economic coordination might prevent the need for such heavy reliance on financial ‘band-aid’ solutions. 1974Kingston (Ont.) Whig-Standard 26 Jan. 7/5 Band-aid measures like tinkering with traffic will not revitalize the downtown area. 1976Sydney Morning Herald 23 Sept. 14/5 Two Sydney Harbour ferries ordered from the Newcastle Shipyards by the State Government were only a ‘band-aid arrangement’ to help the industry. 1984Gainesville (Florida) Sun 4 Apr. 4a/1 The alternatives you propose are just ‘Band-Aid’ solutions.
Hence as v. trans., to apply a makeshift or temporary solution to (a problem, etc.); also with over.
1972N.Y. Times Mag. 29 Oct. 21 A problem of this dimension cannot be ignored or Band-aided over. 1975Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 19 Nov. 19/1 The courts of Victoria..will probably be bandaided through their present time and space crisis. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 18 Sept. 18/2 This is just Band-Aiding the cancer. 1983N.Y. Times 23 June a15 Buy it now, Band-Aid it later. |