jacket

noun

1. 1

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

2. 2

   Any of certain types of outerwear. A piece of a person's suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat; coat (US).

3. 3

   Any of certain types of outerwear. An outer garment (usually white) intended for chefs and which may be taken to signify status.

4. 4

   Any of certain types of outerwear. A vest (US); a waistcoat (UK).

5. 5

   Any of certain types of outerwear. A letter jacket.

   He's hoping to earn his jacket this year.

6. 6

   Any of certain types of outerwear. A lifejacket.

7. 7

   A protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, bullet, hot water tank, vinyl record). A file jacket.

8. 8

   A protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, bullet, hot water tank, vinyl record). In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reinforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.

9. 9

   A protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, bullet, hot water tank, vinyl record). The tough outer skin of a baked potato.

   Cook the potatoes in their jackets.

   Breakfast was composed of a meal which reminded me of a linseed poultice; for dinner there were potatoes boiled in their jackets with beef saltier than the ocean itself.

10. 10

    slangA police record.

    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."

11. 11

    A bastard child, in particular one whose father is unaware that he is not the child’s biological father.

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

   To enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering.

   ...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.

Forms

plural

jackets

past tense

jacketed, jacketted

past participle

jacketed, jacketted

present participle

jacketing, jacketting

third person singular

jackets