dinner jacket

noun

1. tuxedo.

dinner jacket

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of dinner jacket¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

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

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Appleton first attended Ms Friel's home address towards the end of 2023 dressed in a dinner jacket and inviting her to come to a ball with him.

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

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In a small room inside an anonymous industrial block, an old man with a bushy white beard is being fitted with a dinner jacket, ready for the red carpet at the Bafta Awards.

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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.

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