A small adhesive bandage used to cover minor cuts and scrapes; often used as a verb meaning to apply a temporary or superficial fix to a problem.
Originally a trademark by Johnson & Johnson (Band-Aid) created in 1920, named after a cotton strip ('band') combined with 'aid'. It became a generic term through widespread popular use.
Band-Aid was invented because the founder's wife kept cutting herself in the kitchen — he created the product for her, never imagining it would become a household staple used billions of times yearly!
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