Definition of "band-aid" in İngilizce

noun

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.

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

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

verb

1. To apply an adhesive bandage.

   • As a school nurse, Pat was used to bandaiding lots of scraped knees and elbows.

2. To apply a makeshift fix; to jury-rig.

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