jacket

== English == === Etymology === From Middle French jacquet, diminutive of Old French jaque. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt/ (US) (General American) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt/ (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /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) An outer garment (usually white) intended for chefs and which may be taken to signify status. A protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, hot water tank, bullet.) (slang) A police record. 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. (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 ==== ==== Descendants ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === jacket (third-person singular simple present jackets, present participle jacketing or (rare) jacketting, simple past and past participle jacketed or (rare) jacketted) To confine (someone) to a straitjacket. [from 18th c.] Synonym: straitjacket (transitive) To enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering. [from 19th c.] ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ====