bumper sticker

noun

|Updated on: 9 Jul 2018

Definition of bumper sticker

: 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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Recent Examples of bumper sticker from the Web

Police last week executed a search warrant at Oswalt's house and recovered bumper stickers and fliers that matched the ones used in the June incident, Duncan said.

— shane dixon kavanaugh, OregonLive.com, "White nationalist views, arrest of OSU student government rep spark outrage," 23 Jan. 2018
In Yosemite National Park, a bumper sticker urges drivers to slow down.

— tom stienstra, SFChronicle.com, "Lesson told when car careens off mountain road," 4 June 2018
His face is everywhere, not just on lanterns but on T-shirts, bumper stickers, even the wall of a downtown café.

— The Economist, "Mohamed Salah, a footballer, has given Egyptians something to cheer," 26 May 2018
There is no strategy, no guiding principles (bumper stickers are not principles), and little regard for tactics, implications, ramifications or just, what about the Day After?

— barbara k. bodine, San Francisco Chronicle, "‘War on Peace,’ by Ronan Farrow," 17 May 2018
To pay for the ads, signs and bumper stickers, someone has to write a check.

— laura hancock, cleveland.com, "Talk it Out: Is there too much money in Ohio politics?," 27 Apr. 2018
Romans continued the tradition but added political visages to the mix; citizens wore cameos to express devotion to public figures, like very decorative proto–bumper stickers.

— stellene volandes, Town & Country, "Cameo Jewelry Is Having a Moment," 3 May 2018
The red, white and blue bumper stickers feature a duck, wild turkey, trout and pheasant across the top.

— paul a. smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Smith: Sportsmen for Wetlands initiative wells up in Wisconsin," 7 Feb. 2018
Police say that Oswalt and another unidentified individual put the racist bumper stickers—which contained a hateful slur against black people—on two cars that belonged to social activists parked outside a local food co-op.

— breanna edwards, The Root, "Oregon State Student Government Rep Facing Hate Crime Charges in Placement of Racist Bumper Stickers on Cars," 2 Feb. 2018

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