Definition

1. Noun:

   • A short coat: A garment for the upper body, typically extending to the waist or hips, often having sleeves and a front opening.
   • An outer covering or casing: A protective or insulating outer layer for an object, such as a book, a bullet, a wire, or a potato.
   • A dental crown: (Dentistry) An artificial cover for a damaged tooth.

2. Verb:

   • To put a jacket on someone or something: To cover or provide with a jacket.

Examples

• Noun:

  • She wore a leather jacket to the party.
  • The book's jacket had an attractive design.
  • The electrician stripped the plastic jacket from the cable.
  • He ate potatoes boiled in their jackets.

• Verb:

  • The men were jacketed in heavy wool.
  • The hot water pipes must be jacketed to prevent heat loss.

Advanced Usage

• "To dust/dress down/trim/warm someone's jacket": (Idiomatic, informal) To scold or beat someone severely.
  • His father threatened to dust his jacket if he came home late again.

Variants and Related Words

• Life jacket (n): A buoyant vest or jacket to keep a person afloat in water.
• Dinner jacket (n): A man's formal black jacket for evening wear; a tuxedo jacket.
• Jacketed (adj): Covered with or as if with a jacket.
  • A jacketed bullet.

Synonyms

• Coat: A garment for the upper body.
• Covering: Something that covers or encloses.
• Casing: A protective outer cover.
• Wrapper: An outer covering.

Related Phrasal Verbs

(The word "jacket" is not commonly used to form phrasal verbs.)

Related Idioms

• To have one's jacket on a shoogly peg: (Scottish, informal) To be in an unstable or precarious position in one's job.
  • After the mistake, he felt his jacket was on a shoogly peg.

Noun

1. the tough metal shell casing for certain kinds of ammunition
2. the outer skin of a potato
3. (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth
   • tomorrow my dentist will fit me for a crown
4. an outer wrapping or casing
   • phonograph records were sold in cardboard jackets
5. a short coat

Verb

1. put a jacket on
   • The men were jacketed
2. provide with a thermally non-conducting cover
   • The tubing needs to be jacketed