jacket
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle French jacquet, diminutive of Old French jaque.
Inflected forms:
form: jackets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jackets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jacketing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jacketting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
rare
form: jacketed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jacketed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: jacketted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
rare
form: jacketted
pos: verb
tags: past
rare
Senses:
gloss: A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.
pos: noun
gloss: A piece of a person's suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat; coat (US)
pos: noun
gloss: A protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, hot water tank, bullet.)
pos: noun
gloss: A police record.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: 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.
Yo's jacket shows possession with intent, possession of unlicensed firearm, and assault, for which he still owes three years.
"I need to look up somebody's jacket."
gloss: In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reinforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.
pos: noun
gloss: The tough outer skin of a baked potato.
pos: noun
examples: Cook the potatoes in their jackets.
gloss: A bastard child, in particular one whose father is unaware that he is not the child’s biological father.
pos: noun
tags: Jamaica
gloss: A vest (US); a waistcoat (UK).
pos: noun
tags: Appalachia
gloss: To confine (someone) to a straitjacket.
pos: verb
examples: ‘None of your gab, I tell you! If you speak another word, I'll have you jacketed[…]!’
gloss: To enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: ...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.
By jacketting the mercury tube determinations can be made at any temperature desired.
By jacketting the rod and putting the whole resonant-bar device in a pressure vessel, the intrinsic attenuation can be measured under helium confining pressure.
Jaw has been exposed for preserving and jacketting. Note other bone fragments near jaw.
Derived words: air jacket
bad-jacket
Baja jacket
battle jacket
bedjacket
bed-jacket
between-seasons jacket
biker jacket
biking jacket
bluejacket
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
jacketless
jacket potato
jacketwise
jackety
jean jacket
jeans jacket
kangaroo jacket
kilt jacket
lagging jacket
leatherjacket
leathery jacket
letter jacket
letterman jacket
life jacket
lumber jacket
lumberjacket
Mao jacket
matinée jacket
matinee jacket
mess jacket
metal jacket
monkey jacket
Nehru jacket
Norfolk jacket
pea jacket
pilot jacket
polka jacket
potato in its jacket
Prince Charlie jacket
puffer jacket
rainjacket
reefer jacket
rejacket
safari jacket
shacket
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
warmup jacket
warm-up jacket
water jacket
yellow jacket
zouave jacket
jacket up
pedojacket
snitch-jacket
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