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monkey jacket

noun

  1. a short, close-fitting jacket or coat, formerly worn by sailors.


monkey jacket

noun

  1. a short close-fitting jacket, esp a waist-length jacket similar to a mess jacket
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of monkey jacket1

First recorded in 1820–30; so called from its resemblance to a jacket worn by an organ-grinder's monkey
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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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