Meanings
plural bumfreezers
- slangAn Eton jacket or other similar short jacket.
Smaller boys wore short Eton jackets, known as bumfreezers
2012, Anne de Courcy, Snowdon: The Biography1 more example
Seated at table, eating delicious food brought by European migrant waiters in red bumfreezers, I felt that we were all making a very game pretence of reconstructing Europe.
1965, Peter Black, The Poms in the SunSynonyms: bumfreezer jacket
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn Eton jacket or other similar short jacket.
Origin
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