bad-jacket

See also: bad jacket

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
Middle English badde
English bad
Biblical Hebrew עָקַב
Biblical Hebrew יַעֲקֹב (yaʿăqōḇ)bor.
Ancient Greek Ἰακώβ (Iakṓb)
Ancient Greek Ἰάκωβος (Iákōbos)bor.
Latin Iacōbusder.?
Old French jaque
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tosder.?
Late Latin -ittus
Old French -et
Old French jaquet
Middle French jacquetbor.
English jacket
English bad-jacket

    From bad +‎ jacket; see jacket (“(slang) a police record”).

    Verb

    bad-jacket (third-person singular simple present bad-jackets, present participle bad-jacketing, simple past and past participle bad-jacketed)

    1. (transitive) To create suspicion around (a person) through the spreading of rumors, manufacture of evidence and disinformation, etc.
      Hyponym: snitch-jacket
      • 2004 December, Kobie Colemon, “3rd Chamber: African American Nationalist Thought and Action”, in The Revolutionary Vol. 1 A Black People's History of Armed Resistance to Racism and Other Forms of Oppression, United States of America: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 79:
        The F.B.I. then launched a COINTELPRO to bad-jacket him as a police informer, which led to Pratt's expulsion from the BPP in August 1970.

    Usage notes

    • Associated with law enforcement agencies.

    Derived terms

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