Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of sports-jacketed.
[H]ad there been passers by any of those ponds that night they would have seen him. A small figure wild of hair, bespectacled, sportjacketed picking its way across the ice with a violin, talking to itself.
1983, Todd McEwen, “I Was a Fugitive from a Tofu Farm”, in Fisher’s Hornpipe, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 2202 more examples
As the hearing wore on, the foot-high stack of folders teetered on the edge of the table and finally dropped off. But a long, sportjacketed arm swooped in and a big hand palmed the whole stack like pancakes on a spatula.
1986 June 21, Mike Robinson, “Bill Bradley, the tax reformer”, in Daily Globe, number 265, Worthington, Minn., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4, column 4Suddenly we were immersed in cultural dissonance: a predominantly middle-age and sportjacketed California audience watching young, broke hipsters belting out the pain and joys of the artistic life in AIDS-era lower Manhattan.
1997 June 2, Kelly Scott, “Downtown for ‘Rent’ […]”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 May 2026, page L4, column 3
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sportjacketed. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sportjacketed
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