bomber jacket

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noun

a jacket, often made of leather with ribbed trim, resembling those worn by World War II bomber crews.

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How to use bomber jacket in a sentence

In their bomber jackets and ragged T-shirts, they swing their paint cans as they half-run, half-dance through the circa-1957 city streets, already a shambles in the face of urban renewal.
Steven Spielberg’s Extraordinary West Side Story Is an Exuberant Modern Fairytale|Stephanie Zacharek|December 2, 2021|Time
A uniform of gray stubble and bomber jacket over T-shirt have replaced the clean-shaven, suited news-anchor look.
Does Jon Stewart Still Want to Be Funny?|Matt Wilstein|September 30, 2021|The Daily Beast
Hudson, by the way, is the epitome of high-low: he arrives in a chic leather bomber jacket and a Scooby Doo backpack.
Karl Lagerfeld Shows His Paternal Side in Carine Roitfeld Documentary|Isabel Wilkinson|September 3, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Dress often includes a shaved head or very short hair, jeans, thin suspenders, combat boots or Doc Martens, and a bomber jacket.
New DHS Memo Revealed|Benjamin Sarlin|April 30, 2009|DAILY BEAST

He reached into the pocket of his old bomber jacket and found a lighter and flicked it nervously a couple times.
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British Dictionary definitions for bomber jacket

bomber jacket

noun

a short jacket finishing at the waist with an elasticated band, usually having a zip front and cuffed sleeves

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