jackets
noun
Meaning
- 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 (US)
- 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.
- To enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering.
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