jacket
A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.
Noun
- 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.)
- A police record.
- 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...
- Yo's jacket shows possession with intent, possession of unlicensed firearm, and assault, for which he still owes three years. - 1995 September 13, Richard Price, Spike Lee, 00:43:50 from the start, in Clockers, spoken...
- "I need to look up somebody's jacket." - 2014, Inherent Vice, 01:54:00
- 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.
- A bastard child, in particular one whose father is unaware that he is not the child’s biological father.
- A vest (US); a waistcoat (UK).
Origin
From Middle French jacquet, diminutive of Old French jaque.
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Verb
- To confine (someone) to a straitjacket.
- ‘None of your gab, I tell you! If you speak another word, I'll have you jacketed[…]!’ - 1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, volume VII, Fragment:
Synonyms: straitjacket
- To enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering.
- ...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...
- By jacketting the mercury tube determinations can be made at any temperature desired. - 1918, Wilfred E[mil] Guttentag, “Examination and Testing”, in Petrol and Petroleum Spirits: A Description of Their Sources,...
- 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. - 1989, Bernard Zinszner, “Is acoustic wave attenuation a...