biking jacket

biking jacket (plural biking jackets)

1. A thick jacket (usually made of leather) designed to be worn while riding a motorcycle.
   • 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 9, in The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 201:

     […] a morose middle-aged fellow who appeared at the Corry in a suit on weekday evenings but on Saturdays and Sundays was transformed by heavy boots, jeans and biking jacket, the ensemble looking just a trifle too much for him.

   • 1991, Hazel Holt, chapter 12, in The Cruellest Month‎, New York: Onyx, published 1992, page 166:

     “Have you got something respectable to wear?”
     “I shall wear my best biking jacket with the Yamaha badge—of course I’ve got something respectable!”

   • 2011 July 23, “Stars shine at Dhoni’s London charitable party”, in Daily News and Analysis‎:

     […] John Abraham’s favourite biking jacket and helmet were also sold at the fund-raiser.