bumper sticker
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3.1
- noun
- /ˈbʌmpər ˈstɪkər/
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pegatina para parachoques
- Another guest holds up a bumper sticker with "ALEXANDER FOR PRESIDENT" printed in large block letters.
- bumper stickers and slogans
- put on a bumper sticker
- read the bumper sticker
I have a truck that has a bumper sticker that says don't tread on me.
- I have a truck that has a bumper sticker that says don't tread on me.
- My mom saw a bumper sticker of Bart Simpson pulling the finger.
- The full spectrum of possible bumper stickers that are out there.
- I know, but put that on a bumper sticker.
- On his car I saw a bumper sticker which said I'd rather be here now.
- This is people with dead ideas enslaving others with bumper stickers, slogans that they can hold onto, that makes them feel morally virtuous.
- When my brother handed me this stupid word bumper sticker, I lost it.
- And there's Cthulhu for president posters and and bumper stickers every every four years.
- He also drives around town in his jacked up truck covered in little Dick memorabilia AKA Trump flags and bumper stickers.
Examples
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This is his bumper sticker, from the first time he ran for city council.
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The car in front of me had a funny bumper sticker that made me laugh.
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Can I put that on a bumper sticker ?
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I saw it on a bumper sticker.
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I have a bumper sticker that says that.
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I like your bumper stickers.
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If you went out in the parking lot, you could see an ocean of cars with bumper stickers of his opponents.
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That's a great bumper sticker.
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That person's bumper sticker says honk if you love cheese, fair enough.
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David watched until the little car and its jaunty bumper sticker were out of sight.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
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1.0
A small sticky picture used to decorate things or show information
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and literally derived from the constituents: a 'sticker' that is placed on a vehicle 'bumper'. This simple noun+noun compositional pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows basic spatial/possessive combination rules, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Bumper sticker comes from a simple image: a sticker stuck on a car's bumper that carries a short 'message' or 'slogan'. That's why the term now means a small sticker on a car used to show an 'opinion' or idea.