Meaning

• Noun

  1. A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.
  2. A piece of a person's suit, beside trousers and, sometimes, waistcoat; coat (US)
  3. A protective or insulating cover for an object (e.g. a book, hot water tank, bullet.)
  4. (slang) A police record.
  5. In ordnance, a strengthening band surrounding and reinforcing the tube in which the charge is fired.
  6. The tough outer skin of a baked potato.
  7. A bastard child, in particular one whose father is unaware that he is not the child’s biological father.
  8. A vest(US); a waistcoat (UK)

• Verb