smoking jacket

noun

A men's jacket designed to be worn while smoking tobacco, typically made of soft fabric with a tie belt.

Similar
lounging jacket

Meanings

nounsmoking jacket (plural smoking jackets)

plural smoking jackets

  1. A men's jacket designed to be worn while smoking tobacco, typically made of soft fabric with a tie belt.

    A tall, thin man with silver hair and black-rimmed glasses stepped into the lobby. His quilted smoking jacket made him look a little like Hugh Hefner's less decrepit brother.

    2014, Jenn Bennett, Banishing the Dark, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 129
    1 more example

    In a desperate attempt to impress Laura, Bart begins bathing and sashaying about in a smoking jacket while sucking thoughtfully on a bubble pipe as part of his new pint-sized Hef persona.

    2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 30 Jan 2013

Synonyms & antonyms

nouna man's soft jacket usually with a tie belt; worn at home

Similar
lounging jacket
Broader

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

Bulgarian смо́кинг
  • смо́кинг (smóking)men's jacket to be worn while smoking
Esperanto smokingo
  • smokingomen's jacket to be worn while smoking
Finnish tupakkatakki
  • tupakkatakkimen's jacket to be worn while smoking
French smoking
  • smokingmen's jacket to be worn while smoking
Norwegian Bokmål røykejakke
  • røykejakkemen's jacket to be worn while smoking
Polish bonżurka
  • bonżurkamen's jacket to be worn while smoking
Russian смо́кинг
  • смо́кинг (smóking)men's jacket to be worn while smoking
Yiddish סמאָקינג
  • סמאָקינגmen's jacket to be worn while smoking
Cite this entry
APA

smoking jacket. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/smoking%20jacket

MLA

“smoking jacket.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/smoking%20jacket. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “smoking jacket,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/smoking%20jacket.

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