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A jacket is a garment for the upper body. The word may also mean:

Coverings

• Bullet jacket, the plating/covering of a bullet's core with metal to give it a higher velocity
• Dust jacket, the detachable outer cover of a book
• Water jacket, a water-filled casing surrounding a device

Arts and entertainment

• Jacket (magazine), an online poetry magazine
• The Jacket (2005), an American film directed by John Maybury
• "The Jacket" (Seinfeld), a television episode
• The Jacket (novel) or The Star Rover, a 1915 novel by Jack London
• The Jacket (book), a 2001 children's book by Andrew Clements
• The main character in Hotline Miami and a supporting character in Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number

People

• Barbara Jacket (1934–2022), American retired track and field coach
• Ileana Jacket (born 1947), German-born Venezuelan actress

Other uses

• Jacket, Missouri, United States, an unincorporated community
• Jacket (software), the GPU engine for MATLAB
• The supporting legs and lattice framework of an offshore fixed steel oil platform or wind turbine
• Berkeley High Jacket, the student newspaper of Berkeley High School, California

See also

• Jacket matrix, a square matrix that is a generalization of the Hadamard matrix
• Jacket potato, a baked potato filled with other ingredients
• All pages with titles containing Jacket
• Greenjackets (disambiguation)
• Red Jacket (disambiguation)
• Yellowjacket (disambiguation)