Noun: jacket
| Singular | jacket |
| Plural | jackets |
Sample Sentences
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He's hoping to earn his jacket this year.
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Cook the potatoes in their jackets.
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Breakfast was composed of a meal which reminded me of a linseed poultice; for dinner there were potatoes boiled in their jackets with beef saltier than the ocean itself. [1933, Frank Clune, Try Anything Once, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 38:]
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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. And you know with my jacket I can't go back to jail. [1995 September 13, Richard Price, Spike Lee, 00:27:05 from the start, in Clockers, spoken by Rodney Little (Delroy Lindo), 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks; distributed by Universal Pictures:]
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Yo's jacket shows possession with intent, possession of unlicensed firearm, and assault, for which he still owes three years. [1995 September 13, Richard Price, Spike Lee, 00:43:50 from the start, in Clockers, spoken by Rocco Klein (Harvey Keitel), 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks; distributed by Universal Pictures:]
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"I need to look up somebody's jacket." [2014, Inherent Vice, 01:54:00]
Nouns inflected like jacket
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Old French jaque
3. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
4. Proto-Italic *-tosder.?
5. Late Latin -ittus
6. Old French -et
7. Middle French jacquetbor.
8. English jacket
9. From Middle French jacquet, diminutive of Old French jaque.
Verbs referencing "jacket"
Italian Nouns
giacchetta, Irish Nouns
seaicéad, Dutch Nouns
jekker, Romanian Nouns
geacă, Hungarian Nouns
dzseki.