jacket
A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.
Other meanings
A piece of a person's suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat; coat US
An outer garment (usually white) intended for chefs and which may be taken to signify status.
A kind of
- coat
Kinds of jacket
- banyan
- bed jacket
- sport jacket
- bolero
- bush jacket
- donkey jacket
- dressing sack
- jumper
Related words
- bad-jacket
- bluejacket
- jacketless
- jacketwise
- jackety
- lumberjacket
- rainjacket
- rejacket
- shacket
- hose jacket
- air jacket
- Baja jacket
Word history
From Old French "jaque".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “jacket” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.