bumper sticker

noun

: a strip of adhesive paper or plastic bearing a printed message and designed to be stuck on a vehicle's bumper

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Not long ago, a Cybertruck driver found that someone had plastered a bumper sticker on the vehicle that showed Musk superimposed on a swastika, making his straight-armed salute. Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2025 There’s a long act-out of a guy putting a bumper sticker on a car that is somehow very funny. Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025 Other Tesla owners have resorted to bumper stickers to distance themselves from Musk. April Rubin, Axios, 28 Feb. 2025 Los Angeles has gone all in on hyper-specific bumper stickers — the weirder the better. Hunter Clauss, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for bumper sticker

Word History

First Known Use

1948, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of bumper sticker was in 1948

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“Bumper sticker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bumper%20sticker. Accessed 19 Mar. 2025.

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