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sticker

nounverbattested in dialogue

  • Canada//ˈstɪkɚ//
  • Australia//ˈstɪkə//

Something or someone that sticks (pierces, or adheres).

noun

  1. 1

    Something or someone that sticks (pierces, or adheres).

    […] 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.

  2. 2

    One who sticks to something, or does not give up; a stayer.

    He's a sticker. He was a goer to the end in all he did — and in Rugger outstandingly […]

  3. 3

    An adhesive label or decal.

  4. 4

    A price tag.

  5. 5

    The listed price (also sticker price).

    When buying a car, know the sticker and the invoice price.

  6. 6

    A cartoonish illustration of a character that represents an emotion or action, often accompanied by text, that may be superimposed on a digital image.

  7. 7

    informalA burr or seed pod that catches in fur or clothing.

  8. 8

    datedThat which causes one to stick; that which puzzles or poses.

    "That's what I call a sticker for Wagg!"

  9. 9

    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).

  10. 10

    A small wooden rod in an organ which connects (in part) a key and a pallet, so as to communicate motion by pushing.

  11. 11

    A brand, label, or company, especially one making and distributing records.

  12. 12

    A paster.

  13. 13

    slangA bayonet.

Etymology

From stick (“to pierce, to be fastened, to adhere”) + -er (“agent”).

verb

  1. 1

    To apply one or more stickers to (something).

    A tattooed camp staffer DJs from a heavily stickered laptop, next to a whirling party light that scatters rainbow beams throughout the space.

  2. 2

    To mark as the sticker price

    Also out of Africa: a huge hammered copper floor mirror stickered at $449.

Forms

plural
stickers
past tense
stickered
past participle
stickered
present participle
stickering
third person singular
stickers
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).