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bluejacket

[ bloo-jak-it ]

/ ˈbluˌdʒæk ɪt /

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noun

a sailor, especially in the U.S. or British navies.

Origin of bluejacket

First recorded in 1820–30; blue + jacket

Words nearby bluejacket

bluegrass state, bluehead, blueing, blueish, bluejack, bluejacket, bluejacking, blueline, blueness, bluenose, bluepoint

Example sentences from the Web for bluejacket

Bluejacket (who has been hauled twice round the sick bay, yelling inarticulately, by the surgeon with the forceps).

Mr. Punch on the Warpath |Various
The bluejacket solemnly closed one eye and slipped a sheaf of rouble notes into the man's hand.

A Sub and a Submarine |Percy F. Westerman
It was a paying game, for the bluejacket is always free with his hard-earned money.

Pincher Martin, O.D. |H. Taprell Dorling
But to the European mind our bluejacket is still something of an anomaly.

A Traveller in War-Time |Winston Churchill

The bluejacket, brute though he was, was just as evidently a master wrestler and up to all the tricks of the game.

The Dreadnought Boys on Battle Practice |John Henry Goldfrap

British Dictionary definitions for bluejacket

bluejacket

/ (ˈbluːˌdʒækɪt) /

noun

a sailor in the Navy