Definition of Jacket

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Jacket

A short upper garment, extending downward to the hips; a short coat without skirts.

An outer covering for anything, esp. a covering of some nonconducting material such as wood or felt, used to prevent radiation of heat, as from a steam boiler, cylinder, pipe, etc.

In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reenforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.

A garment resembling a waistcoat lined with cork, to serve as a life preserver; -- called also cork jacket.

To put a jacket on; to furnish, as a boiler, with a jacket.

To thrash; to beat.

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Jacket Quotations

My girlfriend bought me a down jacket, she said it fit my personality.
Jay London

As you know, I'm androgynous. I can wear a jacket that most guys wouldn't put on. But you make it in guys' sizes, and suddenly they're wearing them. I think styles should get back to getting people to wear things that look so good that they don't care.
Steven Tyler

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.
Adlai E. Stevenson

I couldn't deal with playing a character who rides motorcycles and has a leather jacket and is a tough kid, y'know?
Leonardo DiCaprio

So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
Vincent D'Onofrio

And whenever I'm in a situation where I'm wearing the same as 600 other people and doing the same thing as 600 other people, looking back, I always found ways to make myself different, whether it be having a red lining inside of my jacket, having red shoes, it hasn't changed.
Jeremy Irons

I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his.
Gavin Rossdale

These thieves defend themselves by saying, 'I was there all the time, and the officials missed me.' Favorite excuses for missing surveillance checkpoints: jacket covered the number took off the shirt with the number hidden in a crowd.
Joe Henderson

There were loads of plays which were very popular before and after the war, where everybody wore a dinner jacket in the third act and it was in a house that you wished you'd owned with people that you wish you knew. It was life seen through a very privileged way.
Timothy West

Jacket Translations

jacket in Dutch is jasje, colbert, buis
jacket in French is jaquette, veste, veston
jacket in Italian is giubba
jacket in Norwegian is omslag, jakke
jacket in Portuguese is revestimento, jaqueta
jacket in Spanish is americana, chaqueta
jacket in Swedish is jacka, jacka, rock, kavaj, kofta

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