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Jacket
//ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt// noun, verb, slang
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.
- 2 (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth wordnet
- 3 A piece of a person's suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat; coat (US)
- 4 a short coat wordnet
- 5 A protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, hot water tank, bullet.)
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- 6 an outer wrapping or casing wordnet
- 7 A police record. slang
"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."
- 8 the tough metal shell casing for certain kinds of ammunition wordnet
- 9 In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reinforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.
- 10 the outer skin of a potato wordnet
- 11 The tough outer skin of a baked potato.
"Cook the potatoes in their jackets."
- 12 A bastard child, in particular one whose father is unaware that he is not the child’s biological father. Jamaica
- 13 A vest (US); a waistcoat (UK). Appalachia
Verb
- 1 To confine (someone) to a straitjacket.
"‘None of your gab, I tell you! If you speak another word, I'll have you jacketed[…]!’"
- 2 put a jacket on wordnet
- 3 To enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering. transitive
"...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."
- 4 provide with a thermally non-conducting cover wordnet
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle French jacquet, diminutive of Old French jaque.
Etymology 2
From Middle French jacquet, diminutive of Old French jaque.
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