bluejacket

[ bloo-jak-it ]

noun

1. a sailor, especially in the U.S. or British navies.

bluejacket

/ ˈbluːˌdʒækɪt /

noun

1. a sailor in the Navy

Word History and Origins

Origin of bluejacket¹

First recorded in 1820–30; blue + jacket

Example Sentences

"Nothing you want ashore, I suppose?" enquired Fosterdyke as he prepared to descend a wire ladder, the end of which was being steadied by a couple of bluejackets in a picket-boat.

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A resumption of the "scrap" seemed imminent, when a bluejacket, tapping at the ward-room door, announced: "Captain's compliments, sir; they've just hooked it."

From Project Gutenberg

Accordingly Mrs. Straus and I started from Constantinople on March 7th in the embassy dispatch boat, Scorpion, a ship of about seven hundred and fifty tons, manned by a crew of seventy-five or eighty bluejackets.

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The vessel was sunk by its own men, and the twenty-two German bluejackets on board were made prisoners....

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The veterans of Wellington and Nelson had been out-fought from first to last by a band of buccaneers, reinforced by a few-score American bluejackets and a handful of nondescript seamen.

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