sticker
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
government
lifestyle
military
music
politics
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stick
English -er
English sticker
From stick (“to pierce, to be fastened, to adhere”) + -er (“agent”).
Inflected forms:
form: stickers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stickers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stickering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stickered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stickered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Something or someone that sticks (pierces, or adheres).
pos: noun
examples: […] 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).
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.
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, […]
He toppled backward, landing on a particularly large cholla and crying out as hundreds of stickers pierced his flesh.
gloss: One who sticks to something, or does not give up; a stayer.
pos: noun
examples: He's a sticker. He was a goer to the end in all he did — and in Rugger outstandingly […]
gloss: An adhesive label or decal.
pos: noun
gloss: A price tag.
pos: noun
gloss: The listed price (also sticker price).
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: When buying a car, know the sticker and the invoice price.
gloss: A cartoonish illustration of a character that represents an emotion or action, often accompanied by text, that may be superimposed on a digital image.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
gloss: A burr or seed pod that catches in fur or clothing.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: That which causes one to stick; that which puzzles or poses.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
dated
examples: "That's what I call a sticker for Wagg!"
gloss: 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).
pos: noun
gloss: A small wooden rod in an organ which connects (in part) a key and a pallet, so as to communicate motion by pushing.
pos: noun
gloss: A brand, label, or company, especially one making and distributing records.
pos: noun
gloss: A paster.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A bayonet.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: To apply one or more stickers to (something).
pos: verb
examples: A tattooed camp staffer DJs from a heavily stickered laptop, next to a whirling party light that scatters rainbow beams throughout the space.
gloss: To mark as the sticker price
pos: verb
examples: Also out of Africa: a huge hammered copper floor mirror stickered at $449.
Derived words: beetle-sticker
bill sticker
billsticker
brown sticker
bumper sticker
car-sticker
frog sticker
pig sticker
pigsticker
potsticker
resticker
sticker book
stickerer
sticker grass
stickerless
stickermania
sticker shock
sticker-shocked
sticker-up
stickery
Tipper sticker
toadsticker
desticker
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