band-aid

An adhesive bandage, a small piece of fabric or plastic that may be stuck to the skin in order to temporarily cover a small wound.

A temporary or makeshift solution to a problem, created ad hoc and often with a lack of foresight.

To apply an adhesive bandage.

“As a school nurse, Pat was used to bandaiding lots of scraped knees and elbows.”

To apply a makeshift fix; to jury-rig.

“Rather than fix the code, we just band-aided the problem by hiding the error message.”