bush jacket

American  

noun

1. 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.

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bush jacket British  

noun

1. a casual jacket or shirt having four patch pockets and a belt

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Etymology

Origin of bush jacket

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

I saw Gabrielle the other night out hunting in a bush jacket at some museum opening.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2021

Sir Harold wore a freshly washed khaki bush jacket, dark grey riding breeches, brown boots.

From Time Magazine Archive

He has 27 of them�black tie for a filet steak Washington, for example, and a kangaroo-skin bush jacket for less formal dishes.

From Time Magazine Archive

The film is all very dislocating: the audience does not expect to see black comedy played out in bleached-white settings or to find the soul of an existential epigrammatist lurking under a rumpled bush jacket.

From Time Magazine Archive

He wore a faded and grimy bush jacket with clips of rifle cartridges on the breast, no shirt and a torn undershirt over a shag of gray-brown chest hair.

From Little Fuzzy by Piper, H. Beam