noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a baked/jacket potato (=cooked in its skin)
▪ We cooked baked potatoes in the embers of the fire.
a cotton shirt/dress/jacket etc
▪ Egyptian cotton sheets are very expensive here.
a jacket/trouser/shirt etc pocket
▪ She slipped the map into her jacket pocket.
bomber jacket
dinner jacket
donkey jacket
dust jacket
flak jacket
jacket potato
life jacket
matinée jacket
oilskin coat/jacket/trousers etc
smoking jacket
sport jacket
sports jacket
undo your jacket/shirt/bra etc
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
▪ So was her brother, Rory, standing on her far side, in a black leather jacket and black jeans.
▪ However, they did have on black jackets and were bearing guns.
▪ The man who shot Richard had grey hair and was wearing a black leather jacket, a blue jumper and jeans.
▪ I always wear black pants, jacket and top with different black shoes for different trouser styles.
▪ He would wear his black leather jacket at Elinor's funeral.
▪ They never failed to show up with the black jackets and the sneakers and the Pimp Roll.
▪ Jimmy, dressed in jeans and a black leather jacket, had arrived on his motorbike.
blue
▪ There was a young Sikh in a red turban, wearing a blue quilted jacket despite the heat.
▪ The fitted blue jacket and the small cap with the red button disappeared.
▪ So had her dark blue jacket, white blouse and black skirt.
▪ He wears navy blue short pants and a little navy blue jacket with bright gold buttons.
▪ One was wearing a blue jacket and the other a grey jacket.
▪ When last seen he was wearing blue jeans, a cream sweatshirt, blue padded jacket and black shoes.
▪ But Paula, dressed in light grey leggings, sweatshirt and a blue denim jacket, looks as cool as a cucumber.
brown
▪ Light brown jacket, question mark shirt, without a hat.
▪ Despite the subtropical climate, Mr Jin wore an imitation sharkskin suit and Mr Jiang a nicely cut brown leather jacket.
▪ He was wearing a brown leather jacket, black jeans and was carrying in a blue holdall.
▪ There was no sign of her clothing, a mini-skirt and brown jacket.
▪ He wore a brown sports jacket with a black roll neck sweater.
▪ Frank, who virtually lives in his brown jacket, blends in with his dusty study, and has a Shakespearean flourish.
▪ He was wearing patched jeans and a dark brown jacket tied with string.
▪ He was wearing a brown jacket, green shirt and blue jeans.
dark
▪ One carried his dark jacket in an odd kind of bundle under one arm.
▪ A woman in a dark jacket turned and opened a metal door like those on bank vaults.
▪ With a smothered exclamation, she rested her face against the smooth material of his dark suit jacket.
▪ She wore high tops, blue jeans and an oversized dark jacket.
▪ The taller man was wearing a dark, leather jacket.
▪ He was wearing a baseball type cap, dark casual jacket and possibly jeans.
▪ This army tried to outfit all its soldiers. Dark green jacket and trousers, and a hard hat.
▪ He was wearing a red ski balaclava, a dark cotton jacket and tracksuit bottoms.
denim
▪ First, he put on his denim jacket.
▪ Against the wall behind them sat two smiling young men in denim jackets.
▪ The men in the denim jackets gaped.
▪ She threw on her denim jacket, and grinning, lied tie door open for Penelope.
▪ Before bringing the receiver to his face, he rubs the earpiece and mouthpiece against the sleeve of his denim jacket.
flak
▪ If that happens, Freedman is going to have to get a flak jacket and write another book.
▪ Strapped into an armor-lined cockpit and trussed up in a flak jacket and helmet, Air Force Capt.
▪ McVeigh wore a purple shirt with a flak jacket beneath it and brown slacks.
green
▪ She had short dark hair, wore well-cut trousers, a green country jacket and long, mud-splashed boots.
▪ Primo notices his dark swollen belly, pushing out between the flaps of a green flak jacket.
▪ So their green suede jackets with leather collars were quite acceptable.
▪ He has a green jacket hanging in his closet from a visit to Augusta in 1982.
▪ But his determination to collect another green jacket shone through.
▪ A perky lady in a Wimbledon green jacket and carrying a clipboard inspects my credential closely.
▪ There he was, the legendary Krakonosc had arrived with his green jacket flapping in his wake.
▪ Dark green jacket and trousers, and a hard hat.
red
▪ He had fair short hair and wore a red tartan jacket.
▪ Every Avis executive was required to don the Avis red jacket and work at the company checkout stations regularly.
▪ He wears a red jacket and trousers and drives a sleigh, just like our Father Christmas.
▪ I finger the red felt jacket from Saint-Malo.
▪ Bathsheba's bedroom window was open, and looking out of it was a handsome man, with his red jacket undone.
▪ I had worn my red tartan plaid jacket, the one I wear only on weekends.
▪ One had on a black top, the other a white top with a red waistcoat style jacket.
▪ He was wearing a red bomber jacket and dark trousers.
white
▪ Her white jacket gave no sign of this.
▪ He was wearing a white zip-up jacket, blue denim jeans and training shoes.
▪ The band were dressed in their usual white hats and white jackets.
▪ It makes a good contrast to all those clean white jackets on normal club nights.
▪ On top was a white jacket.
▪ As usual she was stunning, white linen jacket and trousers supremely casual and graceful.
▪ Wills catalog, a cropped white linen jacket sells for just $ 78.
■ NOUN
bomber
▪ Wearing jeans and bomber jacket with no make-up, she wasn't trying to be a big deal at all.
▪ In this crossover category are thigh-length parkas that offer more protection on wind-whipped city streets than the old bomber jackets.
▪ He was wearing a black zip-up leather bomber jacket.
▪ He was wearing a black bomber jacket, red T-shirt and faded jeans.
▪ By the look of him he might well have left a genuine World War Two leather bomber jacket in the bedroom.
▪ Co-star Steve McFadden, who plays Phil Mitchell, settled for a bomber jacket with blue jeans.
▪ The man was aged 25-30, wearing a leather bomber jacket.
book
▪ One of the subjects on which Headline is careful to listen to the trade is book jackets.
▪ Nature is a kind of poetry for him; an Ecosphere is a book jacket blurb about the real thing.
▪ Blurb a short description or commentary of a book or author on a book jacket.
▪ It peers at you in the background of authors' photographs on book jackets.
▪ Her close friends believe that Mary writes her book reports from book jackets.
combat
▪ In the kitchen he put on the combat jacket under his anorak.
▪ My combat jacket, knife, bags, catapult and other equipment I took down to the kitchen with me.
▪ We drove out of the barracks huddled in our combat jackets, and turned north towards the Alps.
▪ He's described as slim, with long black hair, and was wearing a green combat jacket and jeans.
dinner
▪ Their known, nearly identical faces, slid by in a wave of tawdry dinner jackets, sequinned old lace.
▪ The city suits and ivory silk dinner jackets she gave to Franky.
▪ Neither Patrick nor John had brought dinner jackets so Sir Bryan decreed that the men would wear lounge suits.
▪ She was surprised that Colonel Scott Wilson wore a dinner jacket.
▪ Some of the casino crowd were here, an assortment of dinner jackets and plunging cocktail dresses.
▪ That relatively small room appeared to be a forest of black dinner jackets, grey hair and cigar smoke.
donkey
▪ The man was wearing a donkey jacket and overalls.
▪ The man in the donkey jacket began to walk towards the back door.
dust
▪ The firm of Longman claims the first dust jacket, on Heath's Keepsake for 1835.
▪ Just look at the dust jacket.
▪ They were encyclopaedias or dictionaries with the dust jackets removed.
▪ Unless, of course, you include the dust jacket.
▪ The publishers, on the dust jacket, add to this list teachers and students of community health.
▪ A dust jacket, on the other hand, sets up expectations.
▪ Warner in particular is interesting in producing two B formats with dust jackets.
▪ I shall refrain from doing so, though even the dust jacket has chosen to ignore that discretion.
leather
▪ She glanced up briefly as David Ryker passed her, his leather jacket undone.
▪ The temperature was more than bearable, and in fact in his leather jacket he was far too warm.
▪ I was more casually dressed in corduroys and a black leather jacket.
▪ He is wearing an old leather jacket, black jeans, midnight blue sweatshirt.
▪ It was when Lizzy was sipping her cider that she realised what the man with the leather jacket was doing.
▪ Primo unzips his bag, removes his leather jacket, reaches into the pocket and takes out his keys.
▪ So was her brother, Rory, standing on her far side, in a black leather jacket and black jeans.
▪ She looked pretty in that short leather jacket she wore with the long colorful silk scarf.
life
▪ School was very important, a life jacket in chaos.
▪ I made them wear sneakers, strapped them tightly into a pair of life jackets and turned them loose.
▪ But we were all kitted out in life jackets.
▪ A pair of life jackets and survival suits were stashed beneath the bottom bunk.
▪ This was the only day that Kaz felt life jackets wouldn't be necessary.
▪ Despite my life jacket, I was pinned under water by the down-surging river hydraulic.
▪ Boyant Kapok fibres used to stuff the life jackets had to be removed and teased open again.
▪ The captain of the Iliana ordered his men into life jackets.
linen
▪ Carlo is wearing a large, double-breasted linen jacket and non-matching royal blue linen trousers over a slate-grey T-shirt and stone shirt.
▪ In the locker room, she takes off her beige linen jacket and talks strategy.
▪ Both were wearing grey flannel trousers and pale beige or fawn linen jackets.
▪ Wills catalog, a cropped white linen jacket sells for just $ 78.
▪ As usual she was stunning, white linen jacket and trousers supremely casual and graceful.
▪ She sighed as she folded Elise's cream linen jacket over her arm before making her way along the compartment.
▪ He returned this now, putting the bundle of notes in the inside pocket of the creased, off-white linen jacket.
pocket
▪ He pulled the small plastic box free and laid it on top of the crate, fumbling in his jacket pocket for something.
▪ Tom folded the letter and stuck it into his jacket pocket.
▪ I put my hand into my jacket pocket, felt for the pack, and pulled one out.
▪ He walked down to the lion house, hands deep in his jacket pockets.
▪ He put his right hand in his jacket pocket and produced a bulky envelope.
▪ From his jacket pocket he took a small vanity mirror and adjusted his hair.
▪ I watched as he put the money in his jacket pocket.
potato
▪ Dobson said that 96 % of consumers used low fat cream with salad and 45 % with jacket potatoes.
▪ If you want potatoes with your meal, cook them more often as boiled or jacket potatoes rather than as chips.
▪ Serve with a jacket potato and a green salad.
▪ Cold, cooked jacket potato plus a tub of salad, sandwich filling, or dip.
▪ Open the jacket potatoes lengthways and pile the chilli beans on top.
▪ Two jacket potatoes later - back to it.
▪ The oven door was open, and there were four jacket potatoes on the second shelf.
safari
▪ In his Roos-Atkins collapsible hat and safari jacket, he might have stepped from the pages of Field and Stream.
suit
▪ His dark hair had been trimmed and lay tidily against the high collar of the grey, swallow-tailed suit jacket.
▪ With a smothered exclamation, she rested her face against the smooth material of his dark suit jacket.
▪ Manion unbuttoned his suit jacket and moved out from the podium area.
▪ Him: suit jacket, £680; striped shirt, £190.
▪ He was ready, right down to the Cal button in his suit jacket.
▪ Then his fingers fumbled to unfasten the small buttons of her suit jacket.
▪ The bishop never took off his suit jacket or removed the glittering cuff links engraved with his episcopal shield.
tweed
▪ As a result, the traditional party outfit of flamboyant cravat and tweed jacket has been replaced by the ninety-nine-pound wool suit.
▪ Charles Gullans always wore some sort of tweed jacket and a huge pair of saddle oxfords.
▪ She could still feel, from fingertip to elbow, the textures of cotton shirt, silk tie and tweed jacket.
▪ He wore a tweed jacket over a dark blue turtle-necked jersey and he had a robust mod mustache.
▪ For Diana, a heavy tweed jacket for draughty Balmoral would be a snip at £9.95.
▪ He was still in his riding clothes, well-cut jodhpurs and an old tweed jacket.
▪ The familiar tweed jackets appeared in fresh fruit pastel shades enlivened with a spattering of matched sequins.
▪ She smelt the newness of his clothes, his tweed jacket, the soft shirt, the corduroys.
■ VERB
grab
▪ Then I grabbed my jacket and followed him.
▪ Well, Price grabbed me by the jacket, right above the elbow, and asked me what my name was.
▪ Mitti grabbed her jacket and the two of them left.
▪ He fled to the peg and grabbed his jacket and was putting it on when she got up and came toward him.
▪ Pushing himself from the wall he grabbed Tommy's jacket and pulled him along the road.
▪ He grabbed his jacket and briefcase and flung open the car door.
▪ The man who had agreed with Clive grabbed Nina's jacket collar and tried to rip down her back.
▪ I grabbed a jacket, my handbag, and my keys.
pick
▪ Ludens hastened to pick up the jacket and helped Marcus into it.
▪ I thought I might pick up a jacket.
▪ He picked up his jacket and went down to the basement.
pull
▪ With reluctance she pulled on a jacket and set out for the Rectory.
▪ I tell myself, as I race down the steps, pulling on my jacket.
▪ Because the room was so cold he had pulled on his bomber jacket over his father's shirt.
▪ As he gets up from the table, he pulls on a Stanford-emblazoned jacket he bought on his visit there.
▪ He pulled off his jacket and folded it up beside him.
▪ He pulled on his jacket, smiling.
▪ I pull my battledress jacket over my head in a forlorn attempt to escape from the tiny tormentors; sleep is impossible.
▪ She pulled her leather flying jacket tighter around her.
put
▪ He put the jacket around his wife and daughter Eva on the lifeboat.
▪ In the kitchen he put on the combat jacket under his anorak.
▪ I put on my jacket and ran out of the house.
▪ But at any rate I can finally dust my hands and put my jacket on with a clear conscience.
▪ Joe and Rex still wore shorts in the daytime but now they put on warm jackets.
▪ Kalchu put on his jacket and hurried down the path towards the bridge.
▪ They simply told my father to hurry up and put his jacket on.
reach
▪ Just as the pause edges towards the ridiculous he reaches into his jacket for this packet of cheroots.
▪ Ezra reached into his jacket and pulled out his cigarettes.
▪ Hitch reached inside his jacket and touched the butt of the Beretta he'd taken from Scott.
▪ Farrell reached inside his jacket, his fingers touching the butt of the.45 in his shoulder holster.
▪ Dowd reached inside his jacket and pulled out a thick brown envelope.
remove
▪ He smiled slowly and held her prisoner with his eyes while he removed his jacket with an almost leisurely air.
▪ Primo unzips his bag, removes his leather jacket, reaches into the pocket and takes out his keys.
▪ He removed his jacket, revealing a dashing red woollen waistcoat, rolled up his sleeves and left the room.
▪ He would remove his jacket, roll up his sleeves, and play Ping-Pong with the kids.
▪ In the heat of the kitchen she had removed her costume jacket and hung it over the back of a nearby chair.
▪ He removed his jacket, chuckling to himself.
▪ Pope had already removed his jacket and begun to roll back his sleeve.
▪ Joshua removed his jacket, lay on the bed, turned on the telly but cut the sound.
shrug
▪ He shrugged out of his jacket and her hands went to his cotton shirt, fumbling in their haste to undo the buttons.
▪ She shrugged softly; her jacket crackled.
▪ She walked into the flat, and shrugged wearily out of her jacket, hanging it up in the closet.
▪ Accompanied by familiar butterflies, Fabia shrugged into a jacket and left her room.
▪ He shrugs off the jacket of his suit and drapes it over the back of a chair.
slip
▪ She slipped the jacket from her shoulders and revealed a slender figure encased in a black woollen suit.
▪ Refolding the map neatly, she slipped it into her jacket pocket.
▪ Scott pulled the car over to the kerb, his right hand slipping inside his jacket.
take
▪ Keith took a pull and I took off my jacket and loosened the laces in my shoes.
▪ Pat took off her jacket and hunched forward.
▪ Having taken off their jackets and rolled up their trouser bottoms, the fathers worked barefoot in shirt sleeves.
▪ The bishop never took off his suit jacket or removed the glittering cuff links engraved with his episcopal shield.
▪ Why don't you take off your jacket?
▪ I took off my jacket, laid it on the bed, walked to the bucket, and retched.
▪ By then the officials had taken off their uniform jackets, and were displaying spotless shirts and dark ties.
undo
▪ Marcus then undid Patrick's pyjama jacket and started to try to pull it off, then decided not to.
wear
▪ It entails a little body contact so do not choose some one who is too uptight and of course they must be wearing a jacket.
▪ Mr Alsop generally wore a velvet smoking jacket to dinner; the young men wore black tie.
▪ Julia, wearing a black leather jacket and faded jeans, hid her face as she scurried through Heathrow.
▪ Frank, the eldest son, is twelve, old enough to wear a jacket and tie.
▪ He was wearing a white zip-up jacket, blue denim jeans and training shoes.
▪ Unlike the other mourners, they were wearing Earnhardt jackets and hats.
▪ The man who shot Richard had grey hair and was wearing a black leather jacket, a blue jumper and jeans.
▪ They were both wearing light-colored leather jackets and bell-bottom pants.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
safari suit/jacket
▪ Amin was wearing an electric-blue safari suit with matching sombrero.
▪ In his Roos-Atkins collapsible hat and safari jacket, he might have stepped from the pages of Field and Stream.
▪ She wore a safari suit and khaki hat perched on her slipping load of hair.
▪ Tea is brought by a small furtive man in a grey safari suit.
▪ The three cameramen, smiling at the camera for their picture, are wearing identical green safari suits.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a jacket and tie
▪ a denim jacket
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As a result, the traditional party outfit of flamboyant cravat and tweed jacket has been replaced by the ninety-nine-pound wool suit.
▪ Having taken off their jackets and rolled up their trouser bottoms, the fathers worked barefoot in shirt sleeves.
▪ He found himself tending toward a jacket and tie.
▪ I told the bartender it was a jacket, most definitely.
▪ No, at a ceremony at the cenotaph he wore the wrong jacket!
▪ She had short dark hair, wore well-cut trousers, a green country jacket and long, mud-splashed boots.
▪ This will go through a down jacket.