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bumper sticker

noun

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

Examples of bumper sticker in a Sentence

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These days Bigfoot or Sasquatch can be found everywhere from bumper stickers to T-shirts to carved figures outside of gas stations. Sarah Sekula, USA Today, 21 Nov. 2025 Others slapped on bumper stickers denouncing Musk. Jeremy Lott, The Washington Examiner, 14 Nov. 2025 Again banners give way to LGBTQ flags and anti-Elon Musk bumper stickers in Marin County, where opposition to Prop 50 is much harder to find. Bloomberg, Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2025 They can be found in the countless Trump flags that wave from front porches, on car and truck bumper stickers, and in the 2024 voting rolls that show that 76.7% of Dickinson County, where Abilene is the county seat, voted for the president. Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 7 Oct. 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 4 Dec. 2025.

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