Usually means: Stinging insect, often mistaken for bees.
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  1. yellow jacket: Merriam-Webster
  2. yellow jacket: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. yellow jacket: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. yellow jacket: Collins English Dictionary
  5. yellow jacket: Vocabulary.com
  6. yellow-jacket, yellow jacket: Wordnik
  7. yellow jacket: Wiktionary
  8. yellow jacket: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. yellow jacket: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. yellow jacket: Dictionary.com
  11. Yellow Jacket, Yellow jacket: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. yellow jacket: Rhymezone
  13. yellow jacket: FreeDictionary.org
  14. yellow jacket: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. yellow jacket: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. yellow jacket: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. yellow jacket: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Allergy Glossary (No longer online)
  3. yellow jacket: Medical dictionary

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  1. yellow jacket: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (yellow jacket)

noun:  (chiefly US) A predatory wasp with alternating black and yellow stripes around the abdomen, usually of the genera Vespula or Dolichovespula.
noun:  (slang) A capsule of pentobarbital sodium (or sometimes other barbiturates), especially when used as a recreational drug.
noun:  Synonym of yellow vest (“member of a French protest movement which started in late 2018”).

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