jacket

Meanings

Noun

• A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.
• A piece of a person's suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat; coat
• A protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, hot water tank, bullet.)
• A police record.
• In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reinforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.
• The tough outer skin of a baked potato.
• A bastard child, in particular one whose father is unaware that they are not the child’s biological father.

Verb

• To enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering.

Related

Similar words

• coat (US)
• sleeve

Origin

• From Middle French jacquet, diminutive of Old French jaque.