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sports coat

British  

noun

  1. another name for sports jacket

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He had one blue sports coat, for funerals.”

From Literature

Wearing a cream-colored sports coat, Carrillo brushed her perfectly coiffed, jet black hair out of her eyes while we talked.

From Los Angeles Times

“I was married, I was in law school, I wore sports coats,” Biden said in 1987.

From Seattle Times

When Nantz is calling the Super Bowl on Sunday, he’ll have two items in the left breast pocket of his sports coat.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Seattle Times