bumfreezer
Britishnoun
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a slang name for an Eton jacket
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slang any of various similar styles of short jacket worn by men
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The clothes seldom vary much — jeans, jeans jackets, khakis, bumfreezer blazers — and, according to the mood of the twin designers Dean and Dan Caten, are either laboriously distressed or ostentatiously schoolboy proper.
From New York Times
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