sticker

CEFRA1

/ˈstɪkə/

noun

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Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

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When buying a car, know the sticker and the invoice price.
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.
A tattooed camp staffer DJs from a heavily stickered laptop, next to a whirling party light that scatters rainbow beams throughout the space.

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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.
1982, Fernando Alegria, Fernando Alegría, Chilean Writers in Exile: Eight Short Novels
[…] 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).
1918, Decisions of the Courts of Pennsylvania (Supreme, Superior and Common Pleas), in Workmen's Compensation Cases, page 158
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, […]
2010, Valerie Estelle Frankel, From Girl to Goddess: The Heroine's Journey through Myth and Legend, McFarland, →ISBN, page 212
He toppled backward, landing on a particularly large cholla and crying out as hundreds of stickers pierced his flesh.
2013, Cathy McDavid, Cowboy for Keeps, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 118
He's a sticker. He was a goer to the end in all he did — and in Rugger outstandingly […]
1930, The Strand Magazine, volume 80, page 321

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