sportsjacketed

English

Adjective

sportsjacketed (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of sports-jacketed
   • 1982 January 29, “Theory and the thing itself”, in The Times Educational Supplement, number 3422, page 27:

     Instead, it seemed as if we’d returned for a series of interviews to “Film 62”: there was the eager, sportsjacketed interviewer, starry-eyed and awkward in the face of a Famous Person, unfamiliar with modern styles of interviewing, either intimate or aggressive, asking questions worthy of the gossip columnist.

   • 1993, John McGill, Giraffes: A Glasgow Novel, Edinburgh, London: Mainstream Publishing, →ISBN, page 69:

     Her six months as Alasdair’s steady had been an introduction to a world ten thousand miles from the suburban serenity in which she had grown up; a world that took in not just the hot dirty intimacy of the tenement itself, but cafes and pubs and dance-halls and young men who bore scant resemblance to the bland sportsjacketed creatures of her crescent, her church, the library staff parties.

   • 1996, Gerry Adams, chapter 4, in Before the Dawn: An Autobiography, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow and Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 69:

     After walking up and down outside the shop, peering in at the besuited and sportsjacketed dummies, I ventured inside, where the terms of the HP (hire purchase, or installment plan) agreement were smoothly spelled out for me by an extremely friendly salesman.