jacket

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A short coat, usually reaching to the waist or hips

   You will need a jacket because it is freezing outside.

2. 2
   noun

   An outer cover or casing for something

   He slid the record back into its cardboard jacket.

3. 3
   noun

   The skin of a potato

   We baked the potatoes in their jackets.

4. 4
   verb

   To put a jacket on someone

   I jacketed the kids before we went out into the snow.

Common collocations

• book jacket Noun + noun
• monkey jacket Noun + noun

From Middle French jacquet, diminutive of Old French jaque.

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