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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sticker
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bumper sticker
sticker price
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bumper
▪ I feared souvenir stands selling bumper stickers and Austen joke books.
▪ Our unsolicited advice: Cut off the dreads, peel off the bumper sticker, and just stop listening to reggae entirely.
▪ A couple of months later I had some bumper stickers printed up.
▪ It sells buttons, bumper stickers, jewelry, license plate frames and other items at conventions and rallies.
▪ Two blocks south of the bridge he saw the first Volveremos bumper sticker.
▪ Our Houston office has been inundated with calls in the last few days from people wanting yard signs and bumper stickers.
▪ That he ought never put a bumper sticker on a new car.
■ NOUN
car
▪ But I draw the line at a car sticker.
▪ St Teresa's Hospice car stickers are now on sale at 50p each and should soon be appearing all over town.
▪ I also still have the old Guild car stickers in my car.
▪ Inside the pack will be a membership chard, an attractive car sticker.
▪ Call John Girling on for your free running vest, car sticker, sweatband and sponsor form.
price
▪ In one case a price sticker was 22 months old.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After that we explored the lot periodically, coming home with stickers all the way up to our waists.
▪ Each child was proud of how good they had been, each of them earning three stickers for the three meals.
▪ I know what his car's like - it's yellow, and he's got this sticker on the back window.
▪ If they were able to do this over the course of the whole meal-time they received a sticker on the chart.
▪ One of her big toes had an old sticker of scab on it behind the nail.
▪ Sanitized trucks and combines will sport green stickers, and any other vehicles working in contaminated fields will be labeled in red.
▪ There is a waiver program, where vehicles that show a 30 percent improvement can obtain the license sticker.
▪ When I was a child I once went round the house tearing all the stickers off.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sticker

Sticker \Stick"er\, n.

  1. One who, or that which, sticks; as, a bill sticker.

  2. That which causes one to stick; that which puzzles or poses. [Colloq.]
    --Tackeray.

  3. (Mus.) In the organ, a small wooden rod which connects (in part) a key and a pallet, so as to communicate motion by pushing.

  4. Same as Paster, 2. [Political Cant, U.S.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sticker

1580s, "one who sticks," agent noun from stick (v.). Meaning "gummed adhesive label" is from 1871.

Wiktionary
sticker

Etymology 1 n. 1 something that sticks 2 an adhesive label or decal 3 a brand, label, or company, especially one making and distributing records 4 a price tag 5 the listed price (also sticker price) 6 (context informal English) a burr or seed pod that catches in fur or clothing 7 a wooden strip placed between courses of lumber to allow air circulation. (also 'kiln sticker') 8 (context colloquial dated English) That which causes one to stick; that which puzzles or poses. 9 (context music English) A small wooden rod in an organ which connects (in part) a key and a pallet, so as to communicate motion by pushing. 10 (context US politics English) A paster. vb. 1 To apply one or more stickers to (something) 2 To mark as the sticker price Etymology 2

  1. (context nonstandard informal English) (en-comparative of: stick) (stickier).

WordNet
sticker
  1. n. a sharp-pointed tip on a stem or leaf [syn: spine, thorn, prickle, pricker]

  2. an adhesive label [syn: gummed label, paster]

  3. a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem [syn: poser, stumper, toughie]

  4. a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing [syn: dagger]

Wikipedia
Sticker (disambiguation)

Sticker may refer to any of the following:

  • A sticker, an adhesive label
  • Sticker (Internet), mobile apps emoticon
  • Sticker grass (disambiguation), bur-producing plants
  • The Schulenburg Sticker, a newspaper in Schulenburg, Texas
Sticker (Internet)

A sticker is a detailed illustration of a character that represents an emotion or action that is a mix of cartoons and Japanese smiley-like " emojis." They have more variety than emoticons and have a basis from internet "reaction face" culture due to their ability to portray body language with a facial reaction. Stickers are elaborate, character-driven emoticons and give people a lightweight means to communicate through kooky animations.

Sticker

A sticker is a type of label: a piece of printed paper or plastic with pressure sensitive adhesive on one side. They can be used for decoration, depending on the situation. They can come in many different shapes, sizes and colours and are put on things such as lunchboxes, in children's rooms, on paper, lockers, notebooks and so on. Some people collect and trade stickers with other collectors. Temporary name tags are usually stickers.

Stickers are very widely used when an object requires identification with a word or idea. Brand stickers may be attached to products to label these products as coming from a certain company. They may also be used to describe characteristics of the products that would not be obvious from simple examination. A label dispenser is often used as a convenient way to separate the sticky label from its liner or backing tape.

They are frequently distributed as part of promotional, advertising, and political campaigns; for example, in many voting districts in the U.S., stickers indicating an individual has voted are given to each voter as they leave the polling place, largely as a reminder to others to vote. Observers may clap hands, honk a horn or otherwise applaud a good sticker.

Stickers placed on automobile bumpers, called bumper stickers, are often used by individuals as a way of demonstrating support for political or ideological causes. Identification of vehicle registration and last service details are two examples of stickers on the inside of most car windscreens. The term "window sticker" is generally used for vinyl labels which are stuck to the inside of a vehicle's window, as opposed to water-resistant stickers that are stuck to the outside of a vehicle but can be affixed to anything.

Stickers are also used for embellishing scrapbooking pages. Kinds of stickers sold for this purpose include acrylic, 3D, cardstock, epoxy, fabric, flocked, sparkly, paper, puffy, and vellum. While in the earlier days of scrapbooking stickers were sold mostly on 2"x6" sheets, now 6"x12" and even 12"x12" size sheets are very common.

Stickers applied to guitars are called guitar decals. Post-it notes are removable stickers having glue on only part of the back, and are usually sold blank.

Usage examples of "sticker".

Kalam was searching their bodies, collecting throwing stars, throwing knives, two braces of short, wide-bladed stickers, a garrotte and the most cherished prize of all, a ribless Claw crossbow, screw-loaded, compact and deadlyif only at close range.

Ford Taurus rental up to her aging blue Honda Civic with the Nurses Make It Better sticker on its rusting bumper.

It overshot me a little bit so I got to see the SAVE THE WHALES sticker on the rear bumper.

It seemed to me that Babette and I, in the mass and variety of our purchases, in the sheer plenitude those crowded bags suggested, the weight and size and number, the familiar package designs and vivid lettering, the giant sizes, the family bargain packs with Day-Glo sale stickers, in the sense of replenishment we felt, the sense of well-being, the security and contentment these products brought to some snug home in our soulsit seemed we had achieved a fullness of being that is not known to people who need less, expect less, who plan their lives around lonely walks in the evening.

Philadelphia Flyers sticker the binder was laced with ballpoint scrawlings, lines dug in repetition like Spirograph ovals, gestures toward some perfect, elusive form.

This had led to many humiliating experiences, like the time I absentmindedly covered a statistics assignment with Muppet Babies stickers, or the day one of my famous professors uttered the key word baby during a lecture and my milk let down, soaking the front of my shirt.

Skiros, 118 Garlenda Drive, Twickenham, UK, and was stamped with one hundred shillings worth of un franked stamps and an airmail sticker As well as a letter I reckoned it also contained a tiny plastic card, the sort that supports a micro-chip the memory card from her digital camera?

What he could see, clearly, were a half-dozen large bright sponsor decals and stickers on both sides of the biomembrane and even on the blunt front end.

Stacks of red, white and blue-striped yard signs, posters and bumper stickers urged Vote David Hendrickson for Kinderhook Country Sheriff.

Looking down, he saw that he had landed on his rear in the middle of a large patch of thistlelike plants with springy, woody stems, thin purple leaves, and spectacularly long and pointed stickers.

The sticker on the Bimmer bumper read: MY DAUGHTER AND MY MONEY GO TO DUKE.

He loves that flustered shyness as she delves between the chairs to produce a slim portfolio, the battered covers adorned with Simpsons stickers.

Brett headed for the airport in his downgraded new car, tearing the price stickers off as he drove, but the freeway was at a standstill.

The cars looked on a level with the run-down area: an aging Pinto, oversized gas guzzlers that had seen better days, and a new Sentra with a rental sticker.

Alderman, and William Stickers, and an old woman in a long dress and a hat covered in fruit, and some small children running on ahead, and dozens, hundreds of others.