jacket

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA ^(key): /ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt/
• (US) IPA ^(key): /ˈd͡ʒækɪt/ or /ˈd͡ʒækət/

• Audio (US)

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• Hyphenation: jack‧et

Noun

Singular jacket

Plural jackets

1. (countable) A jacket is a piece of clothing with long sleeves that you wear over a shirt. A jacket is not as long as a coat.

   He took his phone from the pocket of his jacket.

   He pulled on his pants, grabbed his leather jacket, and ran out the door.

   The girl wore a wool jacket that was so short you could almost see her stomach.

   They wore red shirts, or jackets from the English Army.

2. (countable) A jacket is a covering on something such as a book or a record.

   Most Oz books don't have their original dust jackets because the books were so well loved.

   He slipped the record carefully from the jacket.

   A wire to go underground should have a jacket that will not allow water to enter.

   We had a meal of potatoes boiled in their jackets, fish, black bread and butter, and pickled beets.

• 
  A safari jacket
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  A denim jacket
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  A suit jacket
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  A fur jacket
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  A wire with a black jacket (4)
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  Full-metal-jacket bullets

Related words

• flak jacket
• dinner jacket
• sport jacket
• life jacket

Verb

Plain form jacket

Third-person singular jackets

Past tense jacketed

Past participle jacketed

Present participle jacketing

1. (transitive) If you jacket something, you put a jacket on it.
2. (transitive) If $x$ jackets $y$, $x$ covers $y$.