Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A short, tight-fitting jacket, traditionally worn by sailors.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A short close-fitting coat or jacket, generally made of stout material, as pilot-cloth, much worn by sailors in cold weather; a Guernsey frock.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun dated A type of close-fit
jacket worn bysailors - noun A
semiformal lightweight jacket, usually made ofnylon , with stripedcuffs andneck , similar to an MA-1 flight jacket.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun waist-length jacket tapering to a point at the back; worn by officers in the mess for formal dinners
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From its resemblance to the jacket worn by an organ grinder's monkey.]
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yarb commented on the word monkey jacket
We were fain to button up our monkey jackets, and hold to our lips cups of scalding tea with our half frozen fingers.
- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 3
July 23, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word monkey jacket
Hey! I found this in a song recently, "Banks of Newfoundland."
*steals it*
Lyrics are something like
"When you sail on them packet boats,
No dungaree jackets wear
But have a big monkey jacket all ready to your hand
For there blow some cold northwesters on the banks of Newfoundland."
July 23, 2008