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strait-jacket

strait-jacket is the alternative form of straitjacket.

Meaning of straitjacket

Noun

straitjacket (plural straitjackets)

  1. A jacketlike garment with very long sleeves which can be secured in place, thus preventing the wearer from moving their arms; often used in psychiatric hospitals to prevent patients from injuring themselves or others.
    • There’s a couple of people actually wearing duct-tape straitjackets.1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 243
    Synonyms:
    straitwaistcoat
  2. (figuratively) Any situation seen as confining or restricting.
    • our ever-increasing bureaucratic straitjacket of regulations

See all 4 meanings of straitjacket

Forms of strait-jacket

pluralstrait-jackets

Questions about strait-jacket

What is strait-jacket the alternative form of?
Strait-jacket is the alternative form of straitjacket.

Words near strait-jacket in the dictionary

  1. Strait of Sangar
  2. Strait of Sicily
  3. Strait of Tiran
  4. strait-handed
  5. strait-handedness
  6. strait-jacket
  7. strait-jackets
  8. strait-laced
  9. strait-waistcoat
  10. strait-waistcoats
  11. straited

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