Definition of Monkey jacket

1. Noun. Waist-length jacket tapering to a point at the back; worn by officers in the mess for formal dinners.

Exact synonyms: Mess Jacket, Shell Jacket
Generic synonyms: Jacket

Definition of Monkey jacket

1. Noun. (dated) A type of close-fit jacket worn by sailors ¹

2. Noun. A semiformal lightweight jacket, usually made of nylon, with striped cuffs and neck, similar to an MA-1 flight jacket. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Monkey Jacket

monkey B virus
monkey around
monkey bars
monkey boy
monkey boys
monkey bread
monkey breads
monkey bridge
monkey business
monkey diseases
monkey dog
monkey flip
monkey hand
monkey humping a football
monkey in the middle
monkey jacket (current term)
monkey jackets
monkey ladder
monkey malaria
monkey nut
monkey on one's back
monkey patch
monkey patched
monkey patches
monkey patching
monkey pinscher
monkey pod
monkey puzzle
monkey see, monkey do
monkey trail

Literary usage of Monkey jacket

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"Monkey-jacket. A flexible roundabout garment. 1830 My wardrobe consisted of ... 1847 Let me catch him cutting up any monkey shines in this a monkey-jacket. ..."

2. Things Japanese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan for by Basil Hall Chamberlain (1902)
"The European monkey jacket make for the Japanese. WRITING FOR ANOTHER.* BEST PERFUMING WATER ANTI-FLEA. DEALER OF. f and a hundred more. ..."

3. Campaigns of a Non-combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by George Alfred Townsend (1866)
"I glared upon the individual in the monkey-jacket as if he had been Mr. ... I shall be quite willing, I am sure," said the man in the monkey-jacket with ..."

4. The Tichborne Trial: The Summing-up by the Lord Chief Justice of England by Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, Arthur Orton (1874)
"In answer to a question I put, the defendant said I had made a monkey-jacket for him, and which he had for many years. I think he said it was a blue monkey- ..."

5. Robinson Crusoe's Money, Or, The Remarkable Financial Fortunes and by David Ames Wells (1876)
"Every man might, without embarrassment, sleep in his clothes; and if he desired to change his monkey-jacket three hundred and sixty-five times in a year for ..."

6. The Great Country, Or, Impressions of America by Arthur Sketchley (1868)
"General Grant has got to wear that political monkey jacket. We had General Grant up in Minnesota, and of course the distinguished gentleman from Illinois ..."

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