Jacket

//ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.
  2. 2
    (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth wordnet
  3. 3
    A piece of a person's suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat; coat (US)
  4. 4
    a short coat wordnet
  5. 5
    A protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, hot water tank, bullet.)
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  1. 6
    an outer wrapping or casing wordnet
  2. 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."

  3. 8
    the tough metal shell casing for certain kinds of ammunition wordnet
  4. 9
    In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reinforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.
  5. 10
    the outer skin of a potato wordnet
  6. 11
    The tough outer skin of a baked potato.

    "Cook the potatoes in their jackets."

  7. 12
    A bastard child, in particular one whose father is unaware that he is not the child’s biological father. Jamaica
  8. 13
    A vest (US); a waistcoat (UK). Appalachia
Verb
  1. 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. 2
    put a jacket on wordnet
  3. 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. 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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