leather-jacketn.
/ˈlɛðəˌdʒakɪt/, U.S. /ˈlɛðərˌdʒækət/, Australian English /ˈleðəˌdʒækət/ 1. A name given to various fishes, having a thick skin; e.g. Balistes capriscus, Oligoplites saurus, and species of Monacanthus.
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the world > animals > fish > miscellaneous types > [noun] > leather-jacket or oligoplites saurus
leather-jacket1770
pigfish1807
runner1905
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Tetraodontiformes (puffers) > [noun] > family Balistidae (trigger-fish) > Balistes (file-fish)
goatfish1613
prickle1681
leather-jacket1770
unicorn file-fish1804
file-fish1815
monacanthid1977
the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Tetraodontiformes (puffers) > [noun] > family Monacanthidae > member of
leather-jacket1770
fool-fish1842
scleroderm1842
unicorn-fish1876
1770 J. Cook 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.
1789 W. Tench Narr. Exped. Botany Bay xv. 129 To this may be added bass, mullet, skait, soles, leather-jackets, and many other species.
1883 E. P. Ramsay Food Fishes New S. Wales 31 The ‘leather jackets’, Monacanthus, are the only members of this family [Sclerodermi] used as food.
1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I i. 172 The Leather-jacket of Pensacola, Balistes capriscus, called ‘Trigger Fish’ in the Carolinas.
1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I i. 332 The Leatherjacket—Oligoplites saurus.
2. Australian. A kind of pancake.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pancake, tortilla, or oatcake > [noun] > pancake
froise1338
pancakea1400
flawnc1400
crust-rollc1430
pancake wisea1500
flapjack1620
torteau1625
egg-fraise1693
wafer pancake1769
flamm1819
blini1842
leather-jacket1846
round robin1847
Pfannkuchen1856
palacinka1884
blintz1903
latke1909
crêpe Suzette1922
Dutch baby1927
spring roll1927
Palatschinken1929
egg roll1938
tostada1945
crêpe1951
ploye1959
palacsinta1964
pancake roll1967
appam1972
popiah1975
uthappam1976
1846 G. H. Haydon Five Years Austral. Felix vi. 151 A plentiful supply of ‘leather jackets’ (dough fried in a pan).
1855 W. Howitt Land, Labour & Gold I. 117 The leather-jacket..is equal to any muffin you can buy in the London shops.
3. Australian. A name applied to various trees, on account of the toughness of their bark, e.g. Eucalyptus punctata (Morris).
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1874 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Suppl. Leather-jacket of New South Wales, Eucalyptus resinifera.
4. The grub of the crane-fly.
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1881 E. A. Ormerod Man. Injurious 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, frequently a member of a gang or a delinquent group, dressed in a leather jacket.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > person > distinguished by specific item of clothing
peaky blinder1890
leather-jacket1959
1959 New 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.
1960 Britannica Bk. of Year 557/2 The characteristic dress of juvenile delinquents in several countries produced the term leather jackets, meaning delinquents.
1963 V. Nabokov Gift v. 289 Not long before his deportation from Russia, when some revolvered leatherjackets had come to arrest him.
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