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語源

Genericized trademark from Band-Aid, registered and coined by Johnson & Johnson in 1924 as band(age) +‎ aid.

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈbændeɪd/

名詞

band-aid (plural band-aids)

1. (Australia, Canada, US, Philippines) An adhesive bandage, a small piece of fabric or plastic that may be stuck to the skin in order to temporarily cover a small wound.

   Synonyms: adhesive bandage, Elastoplast (UK), plaster (UK), sticking plaster (UK)

2. (informal, idiomatic, Australia, Canada, US, Philippines) A temporary or makeshift solution to a problem, created ad hoc and often with a lack of foresight. [from 1968]

   Synonym: hack

   • 1968, United Church Observer, n 15 (March), p 36:

     It was another of those political band-aids patted over a minor sore.

派生語

Further reading

• adhesive bandage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

動詞

band-aid (third-person singular simple present band-aids, present participle band-aiding, simple past and past participle band-aided)

1. (transitive) To apply an adhesive bandage.

   As a school nurse, Pat was used to band-aiding lots of scraped knees and elbows.

2. (transitive, figuratively, by extension) To apply a makeshift fix; to jury-rig.

   Rather than fix the code, we just band-aided the problem by hiding the error message.

   • 1990 February 4, Leonard Tirado, “Privatized 'Recovery' Versus Collective Action”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 19:

     This is where the addictions theorists and therapists fail (perhaps for lack of nerve): they never strongly suggest that their critique should become the basis for concerted, collective therapy as well as individual therapy. They can't. To do so would mean risking their own dependency upon the system and upon the rewards they receive for band-aiding it.