jacket
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle French jacquet, diminutive of Old French jaque.
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒækɪt/, /ˈd͡ʒækət/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ækɪt
- Hyphenation: jack‧et
NounEdit
jacket (plural jackets)
- A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.
- A piece of a person's suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat; coat (US)
- A protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, hot water tank, bullet.)
- (slang) A police record.
- 1995 September 13, Richard Price and Spike Lee, Clockers, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks; distributed by Universal Pictures, spoken by Rodney Little (Delroy Lindo), 00:27:05 from the start:
- We got a crowd of black, white customers, out-of-state license plates, what have you. Somebody gonna check that out. They gonna drop a dime on me, call 911. And you know with my jacket I can't go back to jail.
- 1995 September 13, Richard Price and Spike Lee, Clockers, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks; distributed by Universal Pictures, spoken by Rocco Klein (Harvey Keitel), 00:43:50 from the start:
- Yo's jacket shows possession with intent, possession of unlicensed firearm, and assault, for which he still owes three years.
- 2014, Inherent Vice, 01:54:00:
- "I need to look up somebody's jacket."
- (military) In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reinforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.
- The tough outer skin of a baked potato.
- Cook the potatoes in their jackets.
- (Jamaica) A bastard child, in particular one whose father is unaware that they are not the child’s biological father.
- (Appalachia) A vest(US); a waistcoat (UK)
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
- air jacket
- Baja jacket
- battle jacket
- bed-jacket
- bedjacket
- biking jacket
- body jacket
- bomber jacket
- bookjacket
- bush jacket
- cork jacket
- dinner jacket
- donkey jacket
- down jacket
- dressing jacket
- dust jacket
- dust someone's jacket
- Eisenhower jacket
- Eton jacket
- field jacket
- flak jacket
- flight jacket
- full metal jacket
- half-jacket
- hunting jacket
- Ike jacket
- jacket potato
- jeans jacket
- kangaroo jacket
- lagging jacket
- leatherjacket
- leathery jacket
- letter jacket
- life jacket
- lumber jacket
- Mao jacket
- matinee jacket
- matinée jacket
- mess jacket
- monkey jacket
- Nehru jacket
- Norfolk jacket
- pea jacket
- pilot jacket
- polka jacket
- potato in its jacket
- Prince Charlie jacket
- puffer jacket
- reefer jacket
- safari jacket
- shell jacket
- shooting-jacket
- smoking jacket
- sport jacket
- sports jacket
- steam jacket
- straight jacket
- varsity jacket
- warm-up jacket
- warmup jacket
- water jacket
- yellow jacket
DescendantsEdit
TranslationsEdit
piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse
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piece of a person's suit
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protective or insulating cover
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slang: police record
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military: strengthening band
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VerbEdit
jacket (third-person singular simple present jackets, present participle jacketing, simple past and past participle jacketed)
- To confine (someone) to a straitjacket. [from 18th c.]
- 1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, vol. VII, ‘Fragment’:
- ‘None of your gab, I tell you! If you speak another word, I'll have you jacketed […] !’
- 1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, vol. VII, ‘Fragment’:
- (transitive) To enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering. [from 19th c.]
- 1897, Alexander James Wallis-Tayler, Motor Cars Or Power-carriages for Common Roads
- ...to...prevent...the loss of heat...there is also a layer of silicate cotton or slag wool. This latter material is also employed to jacket the chimney for a certain portion of its length.
- 1897, Alexander James Wallis-Tayler, Motor Cars Or Power-carriages for Common Roads
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
enclose or encase in a jacket
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