life jacket Meaning of "life jacket"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) life preserver consisting of a sleeveless jacket of buoyant or inflatable design

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Usage(s):

  1. I actually reach under the seat with my hands and touch to make sure that my life jacket is actually there.
  2. She threw out a life jacket, as it were, to women not once but twice, during two distinct periods decades apart: the 1920s and the '50s.
  3. But when six women clung to his life jacket and dragged him down, he was forced to shift to a bunch of bananas, helping two young children onto his makeshift raft.
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/s ˈpjʊ ri əs /