English Explanatory Dictionary

jacket

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.
  2. A piece of a person's suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat; coat (US)
  3. A protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, hot water tank, bullet.)
  4. A police record.
  5. In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reinforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.
  6. The tough outer skin of a baked potato.
  7. A bastard child, in particular one whose father is unaware that he is not the child’s biological father.
  8. A vest (US); a waistcoat (UK).
verb
  1. To confine (someone) to a straitjacket.
  2. To enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering.

Pronunciation

/ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt/ en-us-jacket.ogg /ˈd͡ʒæk.ət/

Word forms

jacket jackets jacketing jacketting jacketed jacketted

Etymology

From Middle French jacquet, diminutive of Old French jaque.

Synonyms

coat sleeve straitjacket

Derived words

air jacket bad-jacket Baja jacket battle jacket bedjacket bed-jacket between-seasons jacket biker jacket biking jacket bluejacket 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 jacketless jacket potato jacketwise jackety jean jacket jeans jacket kangaroo jacket kilt jacket lagging jacket leatherjacket leathery jacket letter jacket letterman jacket life jacket lumber jacket lumberjacket Mao jacket matinée jacket matinee jacket mess jacket metal jacket monkey jacket Nehru jacket Norfolk jacket pea jacket pilot jacket polka jacket
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