a casual jacket or shirt having four patch pockets and a belt
bush jacket in American English
US
a belted, hip-length jacket with buttoned patch pockets
: also bush coat
bush jacket in American English
noun
a belted, hip-length, shirtlike jacket, usually with four patch pockets and a notched collar, adapted from the hunting coat customarily worn in the African bush
Also called: bush coat, bush shirt, safari jacket
Word origin
[1935–40]This word is first recorded in the period 1935–40. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Rhodesian ridgeback, complementation, gangbuster, prime mover, roomette