(British trademark) an elastic adhesive bandage for covering cuts or wounds

Usage examples of elastoplast.

The dull pink of the elastoplast that was wound round its muzzle looked incongruous in so pastoral a setting.

Automatically, he noticed the elastoplast was the thicker kind, from a roll two inches wide with a half-inch band of lint bulging up the middle of it.

With his other hand, he picked at the end of the elastoplast till he had freed enough to pull clear.

George gripped the end of the elastoplast strip and pulled it as hard as he could.

He couldn't imagine a dog with the collie's spirit meekly submitting to having elastoplast tightly wound round its muzzle.

Her dog was later found there tied to a tree, its muzzle taped shut with elastoplast identical to that purchased by Hawkin the previous week in a local shop.

An assistant from Boots the Chemist revealed he had sold Philip Hawkin two rolls of elastoplast which corresponded to both the tape found on the muzzle of Alison's dog and the short section fixing the safe key to the back of the drawer in the study.

Hawkin might not have been buying the elastoplast on his own account, but may have been running an errand for someone else.

Boots the Chemist in Buxton sells between twenty and thirty rolls of elastoplast every week, two of which were sold to Philip Hawkin, who lives in a fanning community, where cuts and grazes are hardly an unusual feature of life.

I took out a tin of Elastoplast and covered the face of the torch till I was left with a hole no more than the size of a sixpence.

I handed her the tin of Elastoplast and without a word she stuck a strip across the incision.

Took me a couple of minutes to remove the strips of Elastoplast and damnably painful it was, too.

But this was Soapy Sam, leading light of the Lawyers as Christians, tied, you might say cocooned, by his marriage to Matey, the formidable nursing sister who manned the casualty room at the Old Bailey, ready with cough sweets or Elastoplasts and calming words for lawyers attacked by disappointed clients and victims of bungled attempts at suicide.

Or, rather, his doctor had said, squinting above a pair of glasses held together with orange Elastoplast, `Terry, you're going to have to change your lifestyle, that is if you're going to have any life at all.