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Bluejacket

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A seaman of a British warship

    "It never entered his mind that here was a matter which from its extreme questionableness, it was his duty as a loyal blue-jacket to report in the proper quarter."

  2. 2
    a serviceman in the navy wordnet
  3. 3
    An enlisted man in the US Navy.

    "[…] drift like tear-starting smoke across these exciting pages written by a bluejacket of the U.S. Navy."

  4. 4
    A uniformed policeman.

    "He told me that Buster took her face 'bout right off. Said there's guts and hair everyplace. There's a platoon or so of Payton's bluejackets up there on the View now."

  5. 5
    An Ohio spiderwort (Tradescantia ohiensis).

Etymology

From blue + jacket.

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