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Band-Aid
(Band-Aid)
noun
trademark
, chiefly
North American
a piece of sticking plaster of a type having a gauze pad:
she put a Band-Aid on Belinda’s arm
(also
band-aid
)
[
often as modifier
]
a temporary solution, especially an unsatisfactory one:
a band-aid solution to a much deeper problem
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