stick-on

American  

[stik-on, -awn] / ˈstɪkˌɒn, -ˌɔn /

noun

1. a label, sticker, or the like, that has an adhesive backing.

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stick-on British  

/ ˈstɪkɒn /

noun

1. informal an event with a certain outcome

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Etymology

Origin of stick-on

Noun use of the verb phrase stick on

Example Sentences

The air in our booth stills and his smile slips, like it was a fake stick-on one, and I see his real self peek out from underneath.

From Literature

Yet we don’t feel the paranoia of eyeballs over the streets, even though it turns out that there’s no way to disguise Powell’s foxlike features under a silly stick-on mustache.

From Los Angeles Times

Pickford is the one position where Tuchel could come in and see him as a stick-on.

From BBC

The other amateur Thespians, wearing comic stick-on mustaches, moved to their marks, improvising a scene in a women’s beauty salon where one patron’s hair is accidentally dyed blue.

From New York Times

Half the crowd seemed to have no more than two degrees of separation from the folk-singing bartender, some donning stick-on mustaches in tribute to Johnson’s whiskered visage.

From Seattle Times