"bad-jacket" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: bad-jackets [present, singular, third-person], bad-jacketing [participle, present], bad-jacketed [participle, past], bad-jacketed [past]
Etymology: Etymology tree Middle English badde English bad Middle French jacquetbor. English jacket English bad-jacket From bad + jacket; see jacket (“(slang) a police record”). Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:af|bad|jacket|tree=1}} Etymology tree Middle English badde English bad Middle French jacquetbor. English jacket English bad-jacket [Appendix:Glossary#inherited|Inherited]] from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "bad", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }, { "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "bor.", "keyword_label" : "Borrowed from", "terms" : [ { "id" : "vest", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Middle French", "term" : "jacquet", "lang" : "frm" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "jacket", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "bad-jacket", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }" data-lang="en" data-title="bad-jacket">, {{af|en|bad|jacket}} bad + jacket, {{ety|en|:af|bad|jacket|tree=1}} Etymology tree Middle English badde English bad Middle French jacquetbor. English jacket English bad-jacket Head templates: {{en-verb}} bad-jacket (third-person singular simple present bad-jackets, present participle bad-jacketing, simple past and past participle bad-jacketed)
  1. (transitive) To create suspicion around (a person) through the spreading of rumors, manufacture of evidence and disinformation, etc. Tags: transitive Hyponyms: snitch-jacket Derived forms: fashjacket, pedojacket

Inflected forms

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