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sticker

[ stik-er ]

noun

  1. a person or thing that sticks. stick.
  2. an adhesive label.
  3. Informal. sticker price.
  4. something, as a problem or riddle, that puzzles or nonpluses one.
  5. Slang. a knife, especially one used as a weapon by a criminal.
  6. a worker who kills animals in a slaughterhouse by piercing the jugular vein with a pointed instrument.
  7. a bur, thorn, or the like.


adjective

  1. of or relating to the sticker price of an automobile:

    Customers are experiencing sticker shock at the high price of new cars.

verb (used with object)

  1. to place a sticker on.

sticker

/ ˈstɪkə /

noun

  1. an adhesive label, poster, or paper
  2. a person or thing that sticks
  3. a persevering or industrious person
  4. something prickly, such as a thorn, that clings to one's clothing, etc
  5. informal.
    something that perplexes
  6. informal.
    a knife used for stabbing or piercing
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sticker1

First recorded in 1575–85; stick 2 + -er 1
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Example Sentences

At the world’s largest technology show, nearly a year after the pandemic started, the most innovative products on offer were a sticker to track vital signs to detect covid-19 and futuristic masks.

In addition to this, you can also use the “Question” sticker in Instagram Stories to ask for feedback.

That means no chat wallpapers or quoting stickers on replies, for example.

The company has also been rolling out new features like wallpaper and animated stickers.

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Fuller plays with a sticker that says “Play Like a Girl” on her football helmet.

After all, there is only one sure-fire message that I can send by putting a Coexist sticker on the back of my car.

Strangely, the Coexist sticker itself illustrates this whole point rather nicely.

Bored, she dropped the sticker, and another child picked it up and copied her.

She picked up a corner of a cyan-blue UNICEF sticker and stuck it over her mouth.

The comic in the middle has a 9.0 sticker on the top left corner and a note that says “WHITE pages.”

He thinks, as I did, that the monograph of Sticker in Nothnagel is the best review of hay fever that we have.

You can work your passage out, and I could get you into a store at Melbourne, and you're such a sticker, you'd be sure to get on.

She went soon afterward and when she returned she had another cap, a sane, respectable cap, one which was not a "sticker."

Thick groups were standing about the hoardings, reading a yellow placard, which was still wet with the paste of the bill-sticker.

Mr. Mavor stated that the latter proposition was the sticker, and a great many voices said that they would never consent.

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