jacket
English
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Etymology
editFrom Middle French jacquet, diminutive of Old French jaque.
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt/
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- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt/
Audio (US): (file) - (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒæk.ət/
- Hyphenation: jack‧et
- Rhymes: -ækɪt
Noun
editjacket (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, Spike Lee, 00:27:05 from the start, in Clockers, spoken by Rodney Little (Delroy Lindo), 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks; distributed by Universal Pictures:
- 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, Spike Lee, 00:43:50 from the start, in Clockers, spoken by Rocco Klein (Harvey Keitel), 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks; distributed by Universal Pictures:
- 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 he is not the child’s biological father.
- (Appalachia) A vest (US); a waistcoat (UK).
Synonyms
editDerived terms
edit- air jacket
- Baja jacket
- battle jacket
- bedjacket
- bed-jacket
- between-seasons jacket
- biking jacket
- body jacket
- bomber jacket
- bookjacket
- bumfreezer jacket
- bush jacket
- cork jacket
- dinner jacket
- donkey jacket
- down jacket
- dressing jacket
- dust jacket
- dust someone's jacket
- ear jacket
- Eisenhower jacket
- Eton jacket
- field jacket
- flak jacket
- flight jacket
- full metal jacket
- half-jacket
- hose jacket
- hunting jacket
- Ike jacket
- jacket potato
- jeans jacket
- kangaroo jacket
- kilt jacket
- lagging jacket
- leatherjacket
- leathery jacket
- letter jacket
- letterman jacket
- life jacket
- lumber jacket
- Mao jacket
- matinée jacket
- matinee jacket
- mess jacket
- metal 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
- suit jacket
- teddy bear jacket
- teddy jacket
- transitional jacket
- varsity jacket
- warmup jacket
- warm-up jacket
- water jacket
- yellow jacket
Descendants
editTranslations
editpiece 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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Verb
editjacket (third-person singular simple present jackets, present participle jacketing or jacketting, simple past and past participle jacketed or jacketted)
- To confine (someone) to a straitjacket. [from 18th c.]
- Synonym: straitjacket
- 1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, volume VII, Fragment:
- ‘None of your gab, I tell you! If you speak another word, I'll have you jacketed […]!’
- (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[1]:
- ...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.
- 1918, Wilfred E[mil] Guttentag, “Examination and Testing”, in Petrol and Petroleum Spirits: A Description of Their Sources, Preparation, Examination and Uses, London: Edward Arnold, →OCLC, page 63:
- By jacketting the mercury tube determinations can be made at any temperature desired.
- 1989, Bernard Zinszner, “Is acoustic wave attenuation a useful parameter for well logging reservoir analysis?—Learning from laboratory experiment”, in G. Imarisio, M. Frias, J.M. Bemtgen, editors, Hydrocarbons: Source of Energy […], London; Norwell, Mass.: Graham & Trotman for the Commission of the European Communities, →ISBN, session I […], page 87:
- By jacketting the rod and putting the whole resonant-bar device in a pressure vessel, the intrinsic attenuation can be measured under helium confining pressure.
- 1999, Maxine R. Kleindienst, Charles S. Churcher, Mary M.A. McDonald, Henry P. Schwarcz, “Geography, Geology, Geochronology and Geoarchaeology of the Dakhleh Oasis Region: […]”, in Charles S. Churcher, Anthony J. Mills, editors, Reports from the Survey of the Dakhleh Oasis, […] (Dakhleh Oasis Project: Monograph 2; Oxbow Monograph 99), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxbow Books, →ISBN, page 7, column 2:
- Jaw has been exposed for preserving and jacketting. Note other bone fragments near jaw.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editconfine to a straitjacket — see straitjacket
enclose or encase in a jacket
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