bumper sticker

See also: bumper-sticker

English

Alternative forms

• bumper-sticker

Etymology

bumper + sticker

Noun

bumper sticker (plural bumper stickers)

1. (US) An adhesive label or decal, usually applied to the bumper or back end of an automobile, and displaying a short political, promotional, philosophical, or humorous message.

   Synonym: (UK) car-sticker

   He has a bumper sticker on his van that reads "faster than a speeding ticket".

   • 2012 [2001], Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 65:

     Many longtime residents strongly oppose the extremism of the newcomers, sporting bumper stickers that say, “Don't Californicate Colorado.”

   • 2012 September 21, Pagan Kennedy, “Who Made That Bumper Sticker?”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Are bumper stickers, as a folk art, on the decline? Yes — in fact, a lot of luxury cars don’t even have bumpers anymore.

2. (US, figurative) Said of canned insight; a slogan or saying that is trite or lacks depth.

   bumper-sticker philosophy

Descendants

• → Dutch: bumpersticker

Translations

sticker

• Dutch: bumpersticker (nl) m
• Esperanto: gluebla aŭtoŝildo
• Finnish: puskuritarra
• German: Autoaufkleber m
• Persian: برچسب سپر (barčasb-e separ)
• Swedish: stötfångardekal (sv) c, bakrutedekal c

canned insight

• Czech: klišé (cs), banalita (cs)
• Finnish: hokema (fi), yksinkertaistus, iskulause (fi)
• Swedish: slogan (sv) c

See also

• lapel pin

Further reading

• bumper sticker on Wikipedia.Wikipedia