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letter-jacketed

letter-jacketed adjective: wearing a letter jacket.

Adjective

letter-jacketed (not comparable)

  1. (US) Wearing a letter jacket.
    • The original film had Soviet shock troops invading the United States — the bipolar Cold War was still in geopolitical play, of course — and they are eventually defeated by a flannel-shirted and letter-jacketed posse of patriotic and exceedingly attractive Colorado farm kids.2012 November 21, Mark McDonald, “Remake of ‘Red Dawn’ Changes Its Political Hue”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29...
    • While Kyle (a blond, letter-jacketed, frat boy Evan Peters) and Zoe make googly eyes at each other through a random ice sculpture, Madison is upstairs getting gang-raped by Kyle’s frat brothers.2013 October 9, Chris Jancelewicz, “‘American Horror Story: Coven’ Premiere Recap: ‘Bitchcraft’ Sets The Tone”, in The Huffington Post, New York, N.Y.: TheHuffingtonPost.com, archived from the...

Synonyms of letter-jacketed

Origin of letter-jacketed

From letter jacket + -ed.

Questions about letter-jacketed

What does letter-jacketed mean?
Letter-jacketed means wearing a letter jacket.
What part of speech is letter-jacketed?
Letter-jacketed is an adjective.

Words near letter-jacketed in the dictionary

  1. letter-boxes
  2. letter-by-letter
  3. letter-carrier
  4. letter-carriers
  5. letter-high
  6. letter-jacketed
  7. letter-perfect
  8. letter-quality
  9. letter-quality printing
  10. letter-size
  11. letter-spacing

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