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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The store's brand has become an East Coast surfing legend — its logo spotted on bumper stickers and T-shirts worldwide.
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J.d. Gallop, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
In fact, the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights launched an educational campaign in the mid-1970s using billboards, leaflets and bumper stickers highlighting how housing desegregation could lead to neighborhood exemption from busing, the report noted.
—Keely Doll, Louisville Courier Journal, 4 Sep. 2025
The cameras record not just the license plate numbers of the cars that pass them, but their make and distinctive features—broken windows, dings, bumper stickers.
—Danielle Chemtob, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
All too often, people think of ending violence as an event simple enough to fit on a bumper sticker or the side of a coffee mug.
—Walter S. Dekeseredy, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2025
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J.d. Gallop, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
In fact, the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights launched an educational campaign in the mid-1970s using billboards, leaflets and bumper stickers highlighting how housing desegregation could lead to neighborhood exemption from busing, the report noted.
—Keely Doll, Louisville Courier Journal, 4 Sep. 2025
The cameras record not just the license plate numbers of the cars that pass them, but their make and distinctive features—broken windows, dings, bumper stickers.
—Danielle Chemtob, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
All too often, people think of ending violence as an event simple enough to fit on a bumper sticker or the side of a coffee mug.
—Walter S. Dekeseredy, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for bumper sticker
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“Bumper sticker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bumper%20sticker. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.
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