stickering

Affixing adhesive labels

Stickering is the act of applying stickers to surfaces—whether labeling products, decorating laptops, or plastering political messages on lampposts.

The term often implies doing this repeatedly or as a deliberate activity: We spent the afternoon stickering notebooks for the fundraiser.

In activism, stickering is a low-cost guerrilla tactic: The group went stickering around campus.

crafting

scrapbooking

Creating decorated keepsake albums

papercraft · cardmaking · journaling · planner · vinyl · peel · backing · sheet · roll · layering

labeling

adhesive

Material that bonds objects

  • barcodeEncoded product stripes
  • priceMonetary value assigned
  • SKURetail product identifier

shipping · mailing · address · warning · caution · hazmat · fragile · QC · inventory · tracking

decorating

laptop

Portable hinged computer

wall · notebook · luggage · helmet · guitar · locker · fridge · mirror · adorn · embellish

expression

self-expression

Conveying one's inner world

  • identityWho someone is
  • fandomEnthusiast community collectively
  • bandGroup playing music together

political · activism · slogan · statement · humor · personality · branding · custom · personalization · uniqueness

collecting

album

Unified collection of recordings

  • tradingExchanging for value
  • swapExchange one for another
  • seriesOrdered set of related items

sets · rare · vintage · holographic · puffy · sparkly · foil · memorabilia · souvenir · keepsake

Categories
Opposites
method of marking/decorating

stickeringengraving

Carving into hard surfaces

etching · branding · carving · painting · stamping

application vs. removal

stickeringpeeling

Coming off in strips

stripping · scraping · erasing · cleaning · sanding

Family

stick, sticky, sticks, sticker, sticking, stickiness, stickers, stickered, unsticking

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G