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jacketed

jacketed adjective: dressed in a jacket. Also the simple past and past participle of jacket.

Adjective

jacketed (not comparable)

  1. Dressed in a jacket.
    • For if a peer come like a porter jacketed,
      Retire he must:—tho’ up he raise his back at it,1780, Kane O’Hara, “Address to the audience by Punch, on the opening of the Microcosm”, in Songs in the Comic Opera of Tom Thumb the Great, Dublin: Arthur Grueber, page iv
    • From the velvet-jacketed figures lounging motionless in the shadows of the open doorways—so motionless that only the lazy drift of cigarette smoke betokened their breathing—to the reclining peons in the shade of a catalpa, or the squatting Indians in the arroyo—all was sloth and dirt.1895, Bret Harte, “A Convert of the Mission” first published in Boston Transcript, 10 December, 1895
  2. Encased or enclosed inside a jacket.
    • One of the advantages of a matrix would be to reduce the cost of our shrapnel by enabling hardened lead balls and round cases to be used in place of the steel-jacketed balls and hexagonal cases...1861, Annual Reports, United States War Dept
    • The metal can completely jacketed must have iron, steel or wooden jacket completely covering the can, except the mouth.1920, Edward J. Martin, The Traffic Library: Principles of Classification

Also used as

jacketed is also the simple past and past participle of jacket.

Examples of jacketed in a sentence

  • Geoffrey, sitting tied and jacketed next to Ali, who was driving, pointed this out […]1980, Anthony Burgess, chapter 5, in Earthly Powers, London: Hutchinson:
  • Much of the time, when no customers came, he spent reading the yellow-jacketed trash that the library contained.1936, George Orwell, chapter 10, in Keep the Aspidistra Flying:

Synonyms of jacketed

Forms of jacketed

alternative formjacketted

Words formed from jacketed

Phrases with jacketed

Questions about jacketed

What does jacketed mean?
Jacketed means dressed in a jacket.
How do you use jacketed in a sentence?
Geoffrey, sitting tied and jacketed next to Ali, who was driving, pointed this out […]
What part of speech is jacketed?
Jacketed is an adjective.

Words near jacketed in the dictionary

  1. jacket plum
  2. jacket plums
  3. jacket potato
  4. jacket potatoes
  5. jacket up
  6. jacketed
  7. jacketed hollow point
  8. jacketed hollow points
  9. jacketed soft point
  10. jacketed soft points
  11. jacketed up

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