noun
sticker
STIH-kuh
noun
1
A small piece of paper or plastic with an adhesive back, used for decoration or labeling.
"The kids covered their notebooks in stickers."
"Peel off the sticker before recycling the jar."
2
The listed price of something, especially a vehicle; short for "sticker price."
"The car sold for well under sticker."
How to Use Sticker
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishAn adhesive label, or informally, a listed price.
Common pairings
sticker price
sticker shock
put a sticker on
Word Forms
stickered past tense, stickers plural, stickers singular
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Etymology
From stick plus the agent suffix -er — literally, "something that sticks."