Usually means: Outer garment for upper body.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word jacket:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. jacket: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. jacket: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jacket: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. jacket: Collins English Dictionary
  5. jacket: Vocabulary.com
  6. Jacket, jacket: Wordnik
  7. jacket: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. jacket: Wiktionary
  9. jacket: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. jacket: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. jacket: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. jacket: Dictionary.com
  13. jacket: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. jacket: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Jacket (disambiguation), Jacket (magazine), Jacket (software), Jacket, The Jacket (Seinfeld), The Jacket (book), The Jacket, The jacket: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Jacket: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. jacket: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. jacket: Rhymezone
  19. jacket: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. jacket: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Jacket: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. jacket: Free Dictionary
  23. jacket: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. jacket: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. jacket: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Jacket: Energy Dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. jacket: CCI Computer
  2. jacket: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. jacket: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. jacket, jacket, jacket: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. jacket, the jacket: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. jacket: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. Book Binding (No longer online)
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. Paper Making (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  6. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)

(Note: See jacketed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.
noun:  A piece of a person's suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat; coat (US)
noun:  A protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, hot water tank, bullet.)
noun:  (slang) A police record.
noun:  (military) In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reinforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.
noun:  The tough outer skin of a baked potato.
noun:  (Jamaica) A bastard child, in particular one whose father is unaware that he is not the child’s biological father.
noun:  (Appalachia) A vest (US); a waistcoat (UK).
verb:  To confine (someone) to a straitjacket.
verb:  (transitive) To enclose or encase in a jacket or other covering.

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