reefer jacket

noun

A thick double-breasted jacket.

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Meanings

nounreefer jacket (plural reefer jackets)

plural reefer jackets

  1. A thick double-breasted jacket.

    My great-uncle in a reefer-jacket, and looking like an old sea-captain with his white beard flying, was putting his whole heart and soul into the wheezey old harmonium [...].

    1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 59

    Synonyms: pea coat

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA thick double-breasted jacket.

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reefer jacket. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reefer%20jacket

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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “reefer jacket,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reefer%20jacket.

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