Definitions for jacket

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jacket jack·et

Spelling: [jak-it]

IPA: /ˈdʒæk ɪt/

Jacket is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in jacket (acejkt).

Definitions for jacket

noun

1. a short coat, in any of various forms, usually opening down the front.
2. something designed to be placed around the upper part of the body for a specific purpose other than use as clothing:
3. a protective outer covering.
4. the skin of a potato, especially when it has been cooked.
5. book jacket.
6. the cover of a paperbound book, usually bearing an illustration.
7. a paper or cardboard envelope for protecting a phonograph record.
8. a metal casing, as the steel covering of a cannon, the steel cover around the core of a bullet, or the water jacket on certain types of machine guns.
9. a folded paper or open envelope containing an official document.

verb (used with object)

1. to put a jacket on (someone or something).

Origin of jacket

1425-75; late Middle English jaket Middle French ja(c)quet, equivalent to jaque jack⁴ + -et -et

Examples for jacket

Micah is 10 years old and he had a coat geared to the season, a Patagonia winter jacket with a hood.

"I'll walk a bit with you," said his sister, donning her jacket and a cap.

Viviette, coming in later in hat and jacket, found him busily writing.

The jacket and gloves were a precaution in the event the eaglet panicked, but there was little fuss as he tossed the net over her.

The sleeves of her jacket had been torn, and were mended with a material of another colour.

Katy's fingers were shaking as she lifted the jacket and Linda slipped into it.

I settle for a sweater and jacket and throw a tie in my briefcase just in case it turns out to be the prom.

This week, President Obama disembarked from Air Force One while holding his jacket in his left hand and a coffee cup in his right.

Then tapping the breast-pocket of his jacket: “And yet I am the force,” he went on.

On a hot day in Milwaukee once, Palmer quietly asked the assembled admirers, "Mind if I take off my jacket?"