jacket

English

Etymology

From Middle French jacquet, diminutive of Old French jaque.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt/
• (US)
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt/

• Audio (US):

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  • (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒæk.ət/
• Hyphenation: jack‧et
• Rhymes: -ækɪt

Noun

jacket (plural jackets)

1. A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.
2. A piece of a person's suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat; coat (US)
3. A protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, hot water tank, bullet.)
4. (slang) A police record.
   • 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:

     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, 00:43:50 from the start, in Clockers, spoken by Rocco Klein (Harvey Keitel), 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks; distributed by Universal Pictures:

     Yo's jacket shows possession with intent, possession of unlicensed firearm, and assault, for which he still owes three years.

   • 2014, Inherent Vice, 01:54:00:

     "I need to look up somebody's jacket."

5. (military) In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reinforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.
6. The tough outer skin of a baked potato.

   Cook the potatoes in their jackets.

7. (Jamaica) A bastard child, in particular one whose father is unaware that he is not the child’s biological father.
8. (Appalachia) A vest(US); a waistcoat (UK)

Synonyms

• (piece of a person's suit): coat (US)
• (removable protective cover): sleeve

Derived terms

• air jacket
• Baja jacket
• battle jacket
• bed-jacket
• bedjacket
• between-seasons jacket
• biking jacket
• body jacket
• bomber jacket
• bookjacket
• bumfreezer jacket
• bush jacket
• cork jacket
• dinner jacket
• donkey jacket
• down jacket
• dressing jacket
• dust jacket
• dust someone's jacket
• ear jacket
• Eisenhower jacket
• Eton jacket
• field jacket
• flak jacket
• flight jacket
• full metal jacket
• half-jacket
• hunting jacket
• Ike jacket
• jacket potato
• jeans jacket
• kangaroo jacket
• kilt jacket
• lagging jacket
• leatherjacket
• leathery jacket
• letter jacket
• letterman jacket
• life jacket
• lumber jacket
• Mao jacket
• matinée jacket
• matinee jacket
• mess jacket
• monkey jacket
• Nehru jacket
• Norfolk jacket
• pea jacket
• pilot jacket
• polka jacket
• potato in its jacket
• Prince Charlie jacket
• puffer jacket
• reefer jacket
• safari jacket
• shell jacket
• shooting-jacket
• smoking jacket
• sport jacket
• sports jacket
• steam jacket
• straight jacket
• suit jacket
• teddy bear jacket
• teddy jacket
• transitional jacket
• varsity jacket
• warmup jacket
• warm-up jacket
• water jacket
• yellow jacket

 

Descendants

• Chinese:
  • → Mandarin: 夾克／夹克 (jiākè), 夹克 (jiákè)
• → Irish: seaicéad
• → Japanese: ジャケット (jaketto)
• → Korean: 재킷 (jaekit)
• → Scottish Gaelic: seacaid
• → Turkish: ceket
• → Welsh: siaced

Translations

piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse

• Albanian: xhaketë (sq) f, gunë (sq) f
• Amharic: ጃኬት (ǧaket)
• Arabic: جَاكِيت m (jakēt), سُتْرَة f (sutra)

  Egyptian Arabic: جاكتّة f (žakitta)

  Hijazi Arabic: جكِيت m (jakēt, jikēt)

  Moroccan Arabic: جاكيطة (jākīṭa)

• Armenian: ժակետ (hy) (žaket)
• Asturian: chaqueta f, xaqueta f
• Belarusian: ку́ртка f (kúrtka)
• Bengali: জ্যাকেট (bn) (jêkeṭ)
• Bulgarian: я́ке (bg) n (jáke), сако́ (bg) n (sakó), жаке́т (bg) m (žakét)
• Burmese: အပေါ်အင်္ကျီ (my) (a.pauangkyi)
• Catalan: jaqueta (ca) f
• Cherokee: ᎦᏌᎴᎾ (gasalena)
• Chichewa: jekete, batchi
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 夾克／夹克 (zh) (jiákè), 上衣 (zh) (shàngyī)

• Cimbrian: rokh m
• Czech: bunda (cs) f
• Danish: jakke (da) c
• Dutch: jas (nl) m
• Esperanto: (senceremonia) jako (eo), (mallonga): jaketo, ĵaketo
• Estonian: jakk (et)
• Faroese: jakki m
• Finnish: takki (fi), pusakka (fi)
• French: veste (fr) f, blouson (fr) m
• Galician: chaqueta (gl)
• Georgian: ქურთუკი (ka) (kurtuḳi)
• German: Jacke (de) f
• Greek: σακάκι (el) n (sakáki), ζακέτα (el) f (zakéta)
• Hebrew: זָ'קֵט (he) m (zhaqétʿ)
• Hindi: जैकेट (jaikeṭ)
• Hungarian: dzseki (hu)
• Hunsrik: Schakett f
• Icelandic: jakki (is) m, frakki (is) m
• Indonesian: jaket (id)
• Irish: seaicéad m, casóg f
• Italian: giacca (it) f
• Japanese: ジャケット (ja) (jaketto)
• Kazakh: күртке (kürtke)
• Khmer: ^{(please verify)} អាវធំខ្លី (ʼaaw thom khləy)
• Korean: 재킷 (jaekit)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: چاکەت (çaket)

• Lao: ເສື້ອໃຫຍ່ (sư̄a nyai)
• Latin: amiculum n
• Latvian: jaka f
• Luhya: kumuchosi
• Macedonian: јакна f (jakna), палто n (palto), сако́ n (sakó)
• Maltese: ġaketta f
• Maori: tiakete
• Mi'kmaq: 'Mtokwon
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: хүрэм (mn) (xürem), цамц (mn) (camc), куртка (kurtka) (Mongolia, pronounced күртэк, /kurtək/)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: jakke (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: jakke f

• Occitan: jaqueta f
• Persian: ژاکت (fa) (žâkat), کاپشن (fa) (kâpšen)
• Plautdietsch: Waums n, Jak f
• Polish: kurtka (pl)
• Portuguese: jaqueta (pt) f
• Romanian: geacă (ro) f
• Russian: ку́ртка (ru) f (kúrtka), жаке́т (ru) m (žakét)
• Scots: jaicket
• Scottish Gaelic: seacaid f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ја̀кна f

  Roman: jàkna (sh) f

• Slovak: bunda (sk) f
• Slovene: jakna f, suknjič m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: jaka f, kemzol m

  Upper Sorbian: jaka f

• Spanish: chaqueta (es) f, (casual jacket) chaqueta (es) f, (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay) campera (es) f, (Chile, Peru) casaca (es) f, (Spain) cazadora (es) f, (Bolivia, Mexico, Southern Spain) chamarra f, (Ecuador) chompa (es) f, (El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras) chumpa f, jacket (es) f (Costa Rica, pronounced 'yáquet'), jacket (es) m (Cuba, Puerto Rico, pronounced 'yáquet'), paltó m (Venezuela)
• Swahili: jaketi (sw)
• Swedish: jacka (sv) c
• Thai: เสื้อแจ็กเก็ต (th) (sʉ̂ʉa-jɛ̀k-gèt), เสื้อนอก (sʉ̂ʉa-nɔ̂ɔk)
• Tibetan: རྗ་ཀེ་ཊེ (rja ke ṭe)
• Turkish: ceket (tr)
• Ukrainian: ку́ртка (uk) f (kúrtka), дже́кет m (džéket) (diaspora)
• Urdu: جیکٹ (jaikeṭ)
• Vietnamese: áo vét tông
• Welsh: siaced (cy) f, siacedi (cy) f pl
• Yiddish: רעקל n (rekl)

piece of a person's suit

• Albanian: xhaketë (sq) f
• Armenian: պիջակ (hy) (piǰak)
• Azerbaijani: pencək (az), jaket
• Belarusian: пінжа́к m (pinžák)
• Bulgarian: палто́ (bg) n (paltó), сако́ (bg) n (sakó)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 夾克／夹克 (zh) (jiákè)

• Czech: bunda (cs) f, sako (cs) n
• Dutch: jas (nl) m
• Esperanto: jaketo
• Estonian: pintsak
• Finnish: takki (fi), pikkutakki (fi)
• French: veste (fr) f
• Georgian: პიჯაკი (ṗiǯaḳi)
• German: Jackett (de) n, Sakko (de) n
• Greek: σακάκι (el) n (sakáki)
• Hungarian: zakó (hu)
• Icelandic: jakki (is) m
• Indonesian: jas (id)
• Italian: giacchetta f
• Japanese: ジャケット (ja) (jaketto)
• Kazakh: пенжек (penjek)
• Korean: 재킷 (jaekit)
• Kyrgyz: пиджак (pidjak)
• Latvian: svārki m pl, žakete f
• Lithuanian: švarkas m
• Macedonian: палто n (palto), сако́ n (sakó)
• Maltese: ġlekk m
• Maori: tiakete
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: пиджак (pidžak)

  Mongolian: ᠫᠢᠳ᠋ᠵᠠᠻ (pidǰak)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: jakke (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: jakke f

• Persian: ژاکت (fa) (žâkat)
• Polish: marynarka (pl) f, żakiet (pl) m
• Portuguese: paletó (pt) m
• Romanian: sacou (ro) n
• Russian: пиджа́к (ru) m (pidžák)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: са̀ко̄ m

  Roman: sàkō (sh) m

• Slovak: bunda (sk) f, sako n, žaket m
• Slovene: suknjič m
• Spanish: chaqueta (es) f, (Latin America) saco (es) m, (Spain) americana (es) m, (Puerto Rico) gabán (es) m, (Venezuela, colloquial) paltó
• Swedish: kavaj (sv) c
• Tajik: пиҷак (pijak)
• Turkish: ceket (tr)
• Turkmen: penjek
• Ukrainian: піджа́к m (pidžák)
• Uzbek: pidjak (uz)
• Venetan: xaca (vec) f
• Vietnamese: áo tây, áo vét

protective or insulating cover

• Dutch: jas (nl) m, vest (nl)
• Esperanto: jaketo
• Finnish: päällinen (fi) (book); vaippa (fi) (hot water tank, bullet etc.)
• French: couverture (fr) f, jaquette (fr) f
• Greek: κάλυμμα (el) n (kálymma)
• Hindi: आवरण (hi) m (āvraṇ)
• Irish: cásáil f
• Japanese: ジャケット (ja) (jaketto)
• Macedonian: обвивка f (obvivka), облога f (obloga)
• Portuguese: revestimento (pt) m
• Russian: суперобло́жка (ru) f (superoblóžka) for a book, чехо́л (ru) m (čexól), капо́т (ru) m (kapót), ко́жух (ru) m (kóžux) for a machine, руба́шка (ru) f (rubáška) for hot water tank, обши́вка (ru) f (obšívka), оболо́чка (ru) f (obolóčka)
• Tagalog: pabalat

slang: police record

• Finnish: rikosrekisteri (fi)

military: strengthening band

tough outer skin of a baked potato

• Finnish: kuori (fi)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} giacca (it) f
• Rwanda-Rundi:

  Kinyarwanda: ^{(please verify)} ikote

Verb

jacket (third-person singular simple present jackets, present participle jacketing, simple past and past participle jacketed)

1. To confine (someone) to a straitjacket. [from 18th c.]
   • 1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anna St. Ives, volume VII, Fragment:

     ‘None of your gab, I tell you! If you speak another word, I'll have you jacketed […] !’

2. (transitive) To enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering. [from 19th c.]
   • 1897, Alexander James Wallis-Tayler, Motor Cars Or Power-carriages for Common Roads‎^[1]:

     ...to...prevent...the loss of heat...there is also a layer of silicate cotton or slag wool. This latter material is also employed to jacket the chimney for a certain portion of its length.

Derived terms

• bad-jacket
• jacket up
• snitch-jacket

Translations

enclose or encase in a jacket

• Irish: cumhdaigh