Meaning

4 senses
  1. A seaman of a British warship

  2. An enlisted man in the US Navy.

    a serviceman in the navy

  3. A uniformed policeman.

  4. An Ohio spiderwort (Tradescantia ohiensis).

Origin

From blue + jacket.

From blue + jacket.

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Forms

plural: bluejackets
Singularbluejacket
Pluralbluejackets

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
sailorA1Confederate spiderwortsnotgrasssnot grasssnotweedcowslobber
Close in meaning
  • a serviceman in the navy:sailor

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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