bad-jacket
bad-jacket verb: to create suspicion around (a person) through the spreading of rumors, manufacture of evidence and disinformation, etc.
Verb
bad-jacket (third-person singular simple present bad-jackets, present participle bad-jacketing, simple past and past participle bad-jacketed)
- To create suspicion around (a person) through the spreading of rumors, manufacture of evidence and disinformation, etc.
- Stokely Carmichael’s neutralization took a rather different form. Utilizing the services of Peter Cardoza, an infiltrator who had worked his way into a position as the SNCC leader’s bodyguard, the Bureau applied a "bad jacket," deliberately creating the false appearance that Carmichael was himself...1990, Ward Churchill, Jim Vander Wall, chapter 5, in The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States, South End Press, →ISBN, archived from the...
- The F.B.I. then launched a COINTELPRO to bad-jacket him as a police informer, which led to Pratt's expulsion from the BPP in August 1970.2004 December, Kobie Colemon, “3rd Chamber: African American Nationalist Thought and Action”, in The Revolutionary Vol. 1 A Black People's History of Armed Resistance to Racism and Other Forms of...
Forms of bad-jacket
| third-person singular present | bad-jackets |
|---|---|
| present participle | bad-jacketing |
| past participle | bad-jacketed |
| past | bad-jacketed |
Origin of bad-jacket
From bad + jacket; see jacket (“(slang) a police record”).
Words formed from bad-jacket
Questions about bad-jacket
- What does bad-jacket mean?
- Bad-jacket means to create suspicion around (a person) through the spreading of rumors, manufacture of evidence and disinformation, etc.
- What part of speech is bad-jacket?
- Bad-jacket is a verb.
- What is the past tense of bad-jacket?
- The past tense of bad-jacket is bad-jacketed.
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