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.