Meanings
verbbad-jacket (third-person singular simple present bad-jackets, present participle bad-jacketing, simple past and past participle bad-jacketed)
present singular third person bad-jackets · participle present bad-jacketing · participle past bad-jacketed · past bad-jacketed
- transitiveTo create suspicion around (a person) through the spreading of rumors, manufacture of evidence and disinformation, etc.
The F.B.I. then launched a COINTELPRO to bad-jacket him as a police informer, which led to Pratt's expulsion from the BPP in August 1970.
2004 December, Kobie Colemon, “3rd Chamber: African American Nationalist Thought and Action”, in The Revolutionary Vol. 1 A Black People's History of Armed Resistance to Racism and Other Forms of Oppression, United States of America: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 79
Origin
- Middle Englishbadde
- Englishbad
- Middle Frenchjacquet
- Englishjacket
- Englishbad-jacket
From bad + jacket; see jacket (“(slang) a police record”).
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