shirt-jac

English

Noun

shirt-jac (plural shirt-jacs)

1. Alternative form of jac-shirt
   • 1971, Men's Wear - Volume 164, page 52:

     Then there are the JEANS JACKETS which are nothing more than a contemporary shirt-jac.

   • 2007, Howard Dodson, Colin A. Palmer, Ideology, Identity, and Assumptions, page 166:

     That is, "Uniform and Weapon" contemplates the shirt-jac, object/icon of black men's material culture in the Caribbean, as a visual sign of the ambivalence of black Caribbean men between bourgeois English affect, which the shirt-jac's modernist material and colonial bush-jacket design cannot escape recalling, and "the revolutionary 'hard man' seriousness associated with Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution."

   • 2012, Zac Bissonnette, Warman's Antiques & Collectibles 2013 Price Guide, →ISBN:

     Left: Green and yellow “shirt-jac” (combined shirt and jacket), cotton blend, spread collar, chest patch pocket, center front button closure, excellent condition. $42

Anagrams

• jac-shirt