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ˈleather-ˌjacket
[f. leather n. + jacket.]
1. A name given to various fishes, having a thick skin; e.g. Balistes capriscus, Oligoplites saurus, and species of Monacanthus.
1770Cook Jrnl. 5 May (1893) 246 They had caught a great number of small fish, which the sailors call leather jackets on account of their having a very thick skin. 1789W. Tench Exped. Botany Bay xv. 129 To this may be added bass, mullet, skait, soles, leather-jackets, and many other species. 1883E. P. Ramsay Food-Fishes N.S. Wales 31 (Fish Exhib. Publ.) The ‘leather jackets’, Monacanthus, are the only members of this family [Sclerodermi] used as food. 1884Goode etc. Fish. & Fish. Industr. U.S. i. 172 The Leather-jacket of Pensacola, Balistes capriscus, called ‘Trigger Fish’ in the Carolinas. Ibid. 332 The Leatherjacket—Oligoplites saurus.
2. Austral. A kind of pancake.
1846G. H. Haydon Five Y. Australia vi. 151 A plentiful supply of ‘leather jackets’ (dough fried in a pan). 1855R. Howitt Two Y. Victoria I. 117 (Morris) The leather-jacket..is equal to any muffin you can buy in the London shops.
3. Austral. A name applied to various trees, on account of the toughness of their bark, e.g. Eucalyptus punctata (Morris).
1874Treas. Bot. Suppl., Leather-jacket of New South Wales, Eucalyptus resinifera.
4. The grub of the crane-fly.
1881E. A. Ormerod Man. Injur. Insects 66. 1898 R. Kearton Wild Life at Home 76, I watched a female [starling] collecting ‘leather-jackets’ on a newly-mown lawn last July.
5. A person, freq. a member of a gang or a delinquent group, dressed in a leather jacket.
1959New Statesman 15 Aug. 180/1 All France has learnt about the bands of ‘leather-jackets’... Why are these young rowdies called ‘leather-jacket’?.. Certainly leather jackets seem to be the uniform for young American delinquents. 1960Britannica Bk. of Year 557/2 The characteristic dress of juvenile delinquents in several countries produced the term leather jackets, meaning delinquents. 1963V. Nabokov Gift v. 289 Not long before his deportation from Russia, when some revolvered leatherjackets had come to arrest him. |