jacket

plural jackets

1. Any of certain types of outerwear.
   1. businessA piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.
   2. businessA piece of a person's suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat; coat (US).
   3. businessAn outer garment (usually white) intended for chefs and which may be taken to signify status.
   4. AppalachiaUKbusinessA vest (US); a waistcoat (UK).
   5. USbusinessA letter jacket.

      He's hoping to earn his jacket this year.

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

      Synonyms: sleeve

   2. governmentIn ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reinforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.

      Synonyms: sleeve

   3. cookingThe tough outer skin of a baked potato.

      Cook the potatoes in their jackets.

      1 more example

      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.

      1933, Frank Clune, Try Anything Once, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 38

      Synonyms: sleeve

3. slanggovernmentA police record.

   "I need to look up somebody's jacket."

   2014, Inherent Vice, 01:54:00

   2 more 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.

   1995 September 13, Richard Price, Spike Lee, 00:27:05 from the start, in Clockers, spoken by Rodney Little (Delroy Lindo), 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks; distributed by Universal Pictures

   Yo's jacket shows possession with intent, possession of unlicensed firearm, and assault, for which he still owes three years.

   1995 September 13, Richard Price, Spike Lee, 00:43:50 from the start, in Clockers, spoken by Rocco Klein (Harvey Keitel), 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks; distributed by Universal Pictures

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

present singular third person jackets · participle present jacketing · participle present rare jacketting · participle past jacketed · past jacketed · participle past rare jacketted · past rare jacketted

1. To confine (someone) to a straitjacket.First known use 18th c.

   ‘None of your gab, I tell you! If you speak another word, I'll have you jacketed[…]!’

   1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, volume VII, Fragment

   Synonyms: straitjacket

2. transitiveTo enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering.First known use 19th c.

   By jacketting the mercury tube determinations can be made at any temperature desired.

   1918, Wilfred E[mil] Guttentag, “Examination and Testing”, in Petrol and Petroleum Spirits: A Description of Their Sources, Preparation, Examination and Uses, London: Edward Arnold, →OCLC, page 63

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   ...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.

   1897, Alexander James Wallis-Tayler, Motor Cars Or Power-carriages for Common Roads

   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.

   1989, Bernard Zinszner, “Is acoustic wave attenuation a useful parameter for well logging reservoir analysis?—Learning from laboratory experiment”, in G. Imarisio, M. Frias, J.M. Bemtgen, editors, Hydrocarbons: Source of Energy […], London; Norwell, Mass.: Graham & Trotman for the Commission of the European Communities, →ISBN, session I […], page 87

   Jaw has been exposed for preserving and jacketting. Note other bone fragments near jaw.

   1999, Maxine R. Kleindienst, Charles S. Churcher, Mary M.A. McDonald, Henry P. Schwarcz, “Geography, Geology, Geochronology and Geoarchaeology of the Dakhleh Oasis Region: […]”, in Charles S. Churcher, Anthony J. Mills, editors, Reports from the Survey of the Dakhleh Oasis, […] (Dakhleh Oasis Project: Monograph 2; Oxbow Monograph 99), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxbow Books, →ISBN, page 7, column 2