jacket

English

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Etymology

From Middle French jacquet, diminutive of Old French jaque.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /ˈdʒæk.ɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ækɪt

Noun

jacket (plural jackets)

1. A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.
2. A piece of a person suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat ; coat (US)
3. A removable or replaceable protective or insulating cover for an object (eg a book, hot water tank.)
4. (slang) A police record.
   • 1995, Clockers, 00:26:00:

     "We got a crowd of black, white customers, out-of-state license plates, what have you. Somebody gonna check that out. They gonna drop a dime on me, call 911. With my jacket, I can't go back to jail."

   • 1995, Clockers, 00:43:50:

     "Yo's jacket shows possession with intent, possession of unlicensed firearm, and assault, for which he still owes three years."

Synonyms

• (piece of a person's suit): coat (US)
• (removable protective cover): sleeve

Derived terms

bedjacket bookjacket donkey jacket dust jacket flak jacket

jacket potato leatherjacket life jacket Nehru jacket smoking jacket

Translations

piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse

• Amharic: ጃኬት (am) (jaket)
• Arabic: جاكيت (ar) (jaakiit) m
• Asturian: chaqueta (ast) f, xaqueta (ast) f
• Bulgarian: яке (bg) (jáke) n
• Catalan: jaqueta (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 夾克 (cmn), 夹克 (cmn) (jiákè)

• Czech: bunda (cs) f
• Danish: jakke (da) c
• Dutch: jas (nl) m
• Esperanto: jako (eo), jaketo (eo), ĵaketo (eo)
• Faroese: jakki (fo) m
• Finnish: takki (fi), pusakka (fi)
• French: veste (fr) f
• Galician: chaqueta (gl)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Jacke (de) f
• Greek: σακάκι (el) (sakáki) n (sakáki)
• Icelandic: jakki (is) m, frakki (is) m
• Irish: seaicéad (ga) m, casóg (ga) f
• Japanese: ジャケット (ja) (jaketto)
• Khmer: អាវធំខ្លី (km) (aav tʰom kləy)
• Korean: 재킷 (ko) (jaekit)

• Kurdish:

  Sorani: چاکه‌ت (ku)

• Lao: ເສື້ອໃຫຍ່ (lo)
• Luhya: kumuchosi
• Macedonian: јакна (mk) (jákna) f, палто (mk) (pálto) n, сако (mk) (sakó) n
• Maltese: ġaketta (mt) f
• Polish: kurtka (pl)
• Portuguese: jaqueta (pt) f
• Russian: куртка (ru) (kúrtka) f, жакет (ru) (žakét) m
• Scottish Gaelic: seacaid (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian: jakna (sh) f
• Slovak: bunda (sk) f
• Slovene: jakna f, suknjič m
• Spanish: chaqueta f; (casual jacket) chaqueta f, campera f (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay), casaca f (Chile, Peru), cazadora f (Spain), chamarra f (Bolivia, Mexico, Southern Spain), chompa f (Ecuador), chumpa f (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras), jacket (es) f (Costa Rica, pronounced 'yáquet'), jacket (es) m (Cuba, Puerto Rico, pronounced 'yáquet')
• Swahili: jaketi (sw)
• Thai: ผ้าห่ม (th)
• Turkish: ceket (tr)
• Vietnamese: áo vét tông (vi)

piece of a man's suit

• Bulgarian: палто (bg) (pálto) n, сако (bg) (sakó) n
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 夾克 (cmn), 夹克 (cmn) (jiákè)

• Dutch: jas (nl) m
• Esperanto: jako (eo), jaketo (eo)
• Finnish: takki (fi), pikkutakki (fi)
• French: veste (fr) f
• German: Jackett (de) n
• Greek: σακάκι (el) (sakáki) n (sakáki)
• Icelandic: jakki (is) m

• Japanese: ジャケット (ja) (jaketto)
• Macedonian: палто (mk) (pálto) n, сако (mk) (sakó) n
• Maltese: ġlekk (mt) m
• Persian: ژاکت (fa) (žâket)
• Portuguese: paletó (pt) m
• Russian: пиджак (ru) (pidžák) m
• Slovene: suknjič m
• Spanish: chaqueta f, saco m (Latin America), americana m (Spain), gabán m (Puerto Rico), paltó (Venezuela, colloquial)
• Swahili: kabuti (sw)

removable or replaceable protective or insulating cover for an object

• Dutch: jas (nl) m, vest (nl)
• Esperanto: jaketo (eo)
• Finnish: päällinen (fi)
• French: couverture (fr) f, jaquette (fr) f
• Greek: κάλυμμα (el) (kálimma) n
• Irish: cásáil (ga) f

• Japanese: ジャケット (ja) (jaketto)
• Macedonian: обвивка (mk) (óbvivka) f, облога (mk) (óbloga) f
• Russian: суперобложка (ru) (superoblóžka) f for a book, чехол (ru) (čexól) m, капот (ru) (kapót) m, кожух (ru) (kóžux) m for a machine, рубашка (ru) (rubáška) f for hot water tank
• Swahili: kabuti (sw)

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Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: jako, jaketo
• German: Jacke f (1)
• Italian: giacca f

• Kinyarwanda: ikote
• Korean: 재킷
• Portuguese: revestimento

Verb

jacket (third-person singular simple present jackets, present participle jacketing, simple past and past participle jacketed)

1. (transitive) To enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering.
   • 1897, Alexander James Wallis-Tayler, Motor Cars Or Power-carriages for Common Roads

     ...to...prevent...the loss of heat...there is also a layer of silicate cotton or slag wool. This latter material is also employed to jacket the chimney for a certain portion of its length.