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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. straint
  2. straintronic
  3. straintronics
  4. strait
  5. strait and narrow
  6. strait jacket
  7. strait jackets
  8. Strait of Bab el Mandeb
  9. Strait of Bonifacio
  10. Strait of Canso
  11. Strait of Dover

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