sticker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪkə/
ipa: /ˈstɪkɚ/
rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: stickers
Etymology: From stick (“to pierce, to be fastened, to adhere”) + -er (“agent”).
Senses: examples: text: […] and I said to Mr. McCauley, whatever is the matter with your neck, it is all swelled up, and he said he got it in the mill; he said he had an arm load of wool and a sticker stuck him in the neck, here (indicating the right hand side of the neck just below the jaw).
ref: 1918, Decisions of the Courts of Pennsylvania (Supreme, Superior and Common Pleas), in Workmen's Compensation Cases, page 158:
text: The prisoner fell flat on his face. They dragged him again, this time towards the grove of calafates. They lifted him up there and they threw him in the middle of the bushes. The boy screamed. Thousands of stickers pierced into his flesh.
ref: 1982, Fernando Alegria, Fernando Alegría, Chilean Writers in Exile: Eight Short Novels:
text: When the prickly pear stickers pierced their paws they howled with pain, but they kept running. Sinopa, who hated the fighting, had followed her brothers. She shot a magic arrow over their heads, which pushed the brothers to safety, […]
ref: 2010, Valerie Estelle Frankel, From Girl to Goddess: The Heroine's Journey through Myth and Legend, McFarland, →ISBN, page 212:
text: He toppled backward, landing on a particularly large cholla and crying out as hundreds of stickers pierced his flesh.
ref: 2013, Cathy McDavid, Cowboy for Keeps, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 118:
glosses: Something or someone that sticks (pierces, or adheres).
examples: text: He's a sticker. He was a goer to the end in all he did — and in Rugger outstandingly […]
ref: 1930, The Strand Magazine, volume 80, page 321:
glosses: One who sticks to something, or does not give up; a stayer.
glosses: An adhesive label or decal.
glosses: A price tag.
examples: text: When buying a car, know the sticker and the invoice price.
glosses: The listed price (also sticker price).
glosses: A cartoonish illustration of a character that represents an emotion or action, often accompanied by text, that may be superimposed on a digital image.
glosses: A burr or seed pod that catches in fur or clothing.
examples: text: "That's what I call a sticker for Wagg!"
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
glosses: That which causes one to stick; that which puzzles or poses.
glosses: A wooden strip placed between courses of lumber to allow air circulation and to create a gap so the unit can be picked up with a forklift (also kiln sticker).
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A small wooden rod in an organ which connects (in part) a key and a pallet, so as to communicate motion by pushing.
glosses: A brand, label, or company, especially one making and distributing records.
topics: government
politics
glosses: A paster.
topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: if not earlier
glosses: A bayonet.
Derived terms: beetle-sticker
bill sticker
brown sticker
bumper sticker
car-sticker
pig sticker
potsticker
sticker book
sticker grass
sticker shock
sticker-shocked
sticker-up
stickery
Tipper sticker