stick plaster

plural stick plasters

1. UKalternativeAlternative form of sticking plaster.

   Attach catheter onto two circular double stick plasters, one at the site of catheter entry to the skin and the other 5 cm away.

   2001, Graham Arthurs, Anaesthesia: A Concise Handbook, page 93

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   […], blood vessel bandages, plaster bandages, sanitary pads and bandages, washable gauze bandages, silk stick plasters, bandage papers, etc.

   1929, The Melliand, volume 1, number 6, page 897

   For the past four years, government and regulators have been trying to treat the wounds exposed by the financial crisis with stick plasters.

   2012, Ben Wilson, quoted in "Banking IT cowboys 'need whipping into shape by watchdog'", The Register