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sports coat

British  

noun

  1. another name for sports jacket

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Sometimes, he explained, what he really wanted to throw was a sports coat that he didn’t wear that Saturday.

From Seattle Times Nov. 1, 2023

A seemingly generic men’s sports coat made from an ultrafine wool harvested from llamalike animals in Bolivia.

From New York Times Jul. 24, 2023

Bald and goateed, Buzz wore a shimmering, red-sequined sports coat that seemed, in places, to have been eaten by plastic-hungry moths.

From Slate May 30, 2023

Beathard, a California surfer boy comfortable in shorts and T-shirts, arrived at Cooke’s Waldorf Astoria apartment in a sports coat and a loosely knotted tie he’d bought that morning.

From Washington Post Apr. 28, 2023

He had one blue sports coat, for funerals.”

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

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