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sticker

[ stik-er ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

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

of or relating to the sticker price of an automobile:
Customers are experiencing sticker shock at the high price of new cars.

sticker

/ ˈstɪkə /

Origin of sticker¹

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

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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