Jacket

Quick meaning: Jacket is a noun meaning A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.

Meaning

A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.

More Meanings

1. A piece of a person's suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat; coat (US)
2. A protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, hot water tank, bullet.)
3. (military) In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reinforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.
4. The tough outer skin of a baked potato.
5. (Jamaica) A bastard child, in particular one whose father is unaware that he is not the child’s biological father.
6. (Appalachia) A vest (US); a waistcoat (UK).
7. (slang) A police record.

Example Sentences

Cook the potatoes in their jackets.

"I need to look up somebody's jacket."

‘None of your gab, I tell you! If you speak another word, I'll have you jacketed[…]!’

By jacketting the mercury tube determinations can be made at any temperature desired.

Word Forms

• jackets
• jacketing
• jacketting
• jacketed
• jacketted

Synonyms for jacket

Depending on context, synonyms include coat, sleeve, straitjacket.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sweater, shirt, blouse, tuxedo, windbreaker, hoodie.

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