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bluejacket

noun

Etymology

From blue + jacket.

  1. derived from jaque
  2. borrowed from jacquet
  3. compounded as bluejacket — “blue + jacket”

Definitions

  1. A seaman of a British warship

    • It never entered his mind that here was a matter which from its extreme questionableness, it was his duty as a loyal blue-jacket to report in the proper quarter.
    • ‘[…] I’m not sure’, she continued, ‘that I won’t throw myself overboard, for the mere pleasure of being rescued by a blue-jacket […]’

  2. An enlisted man in the US Navy.

    • […] drift like tear-starting smoke across these exciting pages written by a bluejacket of the U.S. Navy.

  3. A uniformed policeman.

    • He told me that Buster took her face 'bout right off. Said there's guts and hair everyplace. There's a platoon or so of Payton's bluejackets up there on the View now.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. An Ohio spiderwort (Tradescantia ohiensis).

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA