dinner jacket

American  

noun

1. tuxedo.

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dinner jacket British  

noun

1. Abbreviations: DJ.   dj.  US and Canadian name: tuxedo.  a man's semiformal evening jacket without tails, usually black with a silk facing over the collar and lapels

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Etymology

Origin of dinner jacket

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

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dinner jacket

One middle-aged American man wore a cream dinner jacket to be desecrated as a souvenir.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2025

Henry Poole, credited with creating the dinner jacket, or tuxedo, has held a British royal warrant since the 1860s when it supplied Queen Victoria.

From Reuters ● May 2, 2023

I found him one evening in the virtual club’s dingy bathroom chatting with a giant fox, a couple of skater girls and a guy in a dinner jacket smoking a cigarette.

From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2022

Just minutes into the show, host Gary Collins pulled an envelope from his burgundy dinner jacket: the names of the 10 finalists.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 20, 2021

The day after Wayne Parr said he had chosen powder blue for his dinner jacket, three- quarters of the boys ordered the same from Tuxedo Junction.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli