# jacket
## English
### Etymology

From Middle French jacquet, diminutive of Old French jaque.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt/
* (US)
** (General American) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt/
* Audio (US):(file)
** (weak vowel merger) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒæk.ət/
* Hyphenation: jack‧et
* Rhymes: -ækɪt

### Noun

jacket (plural jackets)
* A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.
* A piece of a person's suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat; coat (US)
* A protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, hot water tank, bullet.)
* (slang) A police record.
** 1995 September 13, Richard Price, Spike Lee, 00:27:05 from the start, in Clockers, spoken by Rodney Little (Delroy Lindo), 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks; distributed by Universal Pictures: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.
** 1995 September 13, Richard Price, Spike Lee, 00:43:50 from the start, in Clockers, spoken by Rocco Klein (Harvey Keitel), 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks; distributed by Universal Pictures:Yo's jacket shows possession with intent, possession of unlicensed firearm, and assault, for which he still owes three years.
** 2014, Inherent Vice, 01:54:00:
    "I need to look up somebody's jacket."
* (military) In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reinforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.
* The tough outer skin of a baked potato.
    Cook the potatoes in their jackets.
* (Jamaica) A bastard child, in particular one whose father is unaware that he is not the child’s biological father.
* (Appalachia) A vest (US); a waistcoat (UK).

#### Synonyms

* (piece of a person's suit): coat (US)
* (removable protective cover): sleeve

#### Derived terms

* air jacket
* Baja jacket
* battle jacket
* bed-jacket
* bedjacket
* between-seasons jacket
* biking jacket
* 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
* jacket potato
* jeans jacket
* kangaroo jacket
* kilt jacket
* lagging jacket
* leatherjacket
* leathery jacket
* letter jacket
* letterman jacket
* life jacket
* lumber jacket
* Mao jacket
* matinee jacket
* matinée jacket
* mess jacket
* monkey jacket
* Nehru jacket
* Norfolk jacket
* pea jacket
* pilot jacket
* polka jacket
* potato in its jacket
* Prince Charlie jacket
* puffer jacket
* reefer jacket
* safari jacket
* shell jacket
* shooting-jacket
* smoking jacket
* sport jacket
* sports jacket
* steam jacket
* straight jacket
* suit jacket
* teddy bear jacket
* teddy jacket
* transitional jacket
* varsity jacket
* warm-up jacket
* warmup jacket
* water jacket
* yellow jacket

#### Descendants

* Chinese:
** → Mandarin: 夾克 / 夹克 (jiākè), 茄克 (jiākè)
* → Irish: seaicéad
* → Japanese: ジャケット (jaketto)
* → Korean: 재킷 (jaekit)
* → Scottish Gaelic: seacaid
* → Turkish: ceket
* → Welsh: siaced

#### Translations

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### Verb

jacket (third-person singular simple present jackets, present participle jacketing, simple past and past participle jacketed)
* To confine (someone) to a straitjacket. [from 18th c.]
** 1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, volume VII, Fragment:‘None of your gab, I tell you! If you speak another word, I'll have you jacketed […] !’
* (transitive) To enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering. [from 19th c.]
** 1897, Alexander James Wallis-Tayler, Motor Cars Or Power-carriages for Common Roads‎:...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.

#### Derived terms

* bad-jacket
* jacket up
* snitch-jacket