bumper sticker

See also: bumper-sticker

English

(US) An adhesive label or decal, usually applied to the bumper or back end of an automobile, and displaying a short political, promotional, philosophical, or humorous message.
Synonym: (UK) car-sticker

He has a bumper sticker on his van that reads "faster than a speeding ticket".
- 2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.2, at p.35:
  My space in the teachers' parking lot was next to Henry's. His back bumper had two stickers: "I'd Rather Be Golfing" and "He who dies with the most toys WINS!"
- 2012 [2001], Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 65:
  Many longtime residents strongly oppose the extremism of the newcomers, sporting bumper stickers that say, “Don't Californicate Colorado.”
- 2012 September 21, Pagan Kennedy, “Who Made That Bumper Sticker?”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:
  Are bumper stickers, as a folk art, on the decline? Yes — in fact, a lot of luxury cars don’t even have bumpers anymore.
(US, figurative) Said of canned insight; a slogan or saying that is trite or lacks depth.
bumper-sticker philosophy
- 2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.7, at p.157:
  "It's like a status thing, you know? 'My kid's special because he's got a peanut allergy.' I'm surprised they don't have a bumper sticker for it."

sticker

canned insight