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jacket
noun- a condom UK
- Mum always said not to trust no girl and wear a “jacket” at all times. — Alex Wheatie, The Dirty South, p. 35, 2008
- a personnel file, especially in prison or the military US, 1944
- The jacket said she was 38 years old, and her number was J-019–20 and she lived in KB-2 of the women’s unit. — Clarence Cooper Jr., The Farm, p. 42, 1967
- If you ever get the chance, see what reason they have in my jacket for the 1962 transfer to San Quentin from Tracy. — George Jackson, Soledad Brother, p. 220, 24 March 1970
- The general’s going to put a letter of reprimand in your jacket, but hell, all that’ll do is hurt your chances for promotion to captain. — Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War, p. 319, 1977
- Two-time loser with a Quentin jacket. — James Ellroy, Blood on the Moon, p. 83, 1984
- an executive not involved with actual production US
- — Anna Scotti and Paul Young, Buzzwords, p. 6, 1997
- a capsule of Nembutal, a central nervous system depressant US
- — American Speech, p. 27, February 1952: “Teen-age hophead jargon”
- a jail sentence US
- Three days later Christy got a three-year jacket and was on his way. — Nelson Algren, The Neon Wilderness, p. 195, 1960
▶ get a jacket; wear a jacket
(used of a man) to accept, unknowingly, another man’s child as your own JAMAICA- However, for the fear of getting a “jacket”, that is supporting and housing another man’s child, in this harsh economic climate, has led to a reluctance to accept responsibility. — Xnews, p. 8, 2 July 1997
▶ give (someone) a jacket
(used of a woman) to name someone as the father of her child who is not actually the father JAMAICA- — Peter Patrick, Some Recent Jamaican Creole Words, 2003
▶ put the jacket on someone
to frame someone, setting them up to take the blame US- — Bill Reilly, Big Al’s Official Guide to Chicagoese, p. 38, 1982
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