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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)

  1. (transitive) 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 presentbad-jackets
present participlebad-jacketing
past participlebad-jacketed
pastbad-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.

Words near bad-jacket in the dictionary

  1. bad-assery
  2. bad-asses
  3. bad-assness
  4. bad-boy
  5. bad-boys
  6. bad-jacket
  7. bad-jacketed
  8. bad-jacketing
  9. bad-jackets
  10. bad-lad split
  11. bad-looking

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