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monkey jacket
noun
- a short, close-fitting jacket or coat, formerly worn by sailors.
monkey jacket
noun
- a short close-fitting jacket, esp a waist-length jacket similar to a mess jacket
Word History and Origins
Origin of monkey jacket1
Example Sentences
We hurried into our cabin—ours, alas! no more—and exchanged our hats for caps, and put on our monkey jackets—our winter ones.
"Be on hand, my young monkey jacket; I should hate to be turned out so early for nothing."
In the stern sheets sat a tall, upright figure, the tiller ropes in either hand, dressed in a monkey jacket, pilot cloth trousers, and a sailor’s cap.
He wrapped the whole charge, except for one small corner, in several pieces of the men's discarded clothing—monkey jackets, thick sweaters, a dirty towel—and stuffed it in an empty tin container for sea-biscuits.
Still another belt encircled me, and, though I had come up warmly clad in woolen shirts and monkey jacket, I felt these garments being torn away from me.
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