Dictionary

bad-jacket en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree Middle English badde English bad Old French jaque Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Late Latin -ittus Old French -et Middle French jacquetbor. English jacket English bad-jacket From bad + jacket; see jacket (“(slang) a police record”).

Meanings

1. (transitive) To create suspicion around (a person) through the spreading of rumors, manufacture of evidence and disinformation, etc.
   • The F.B.I. then launched a COINTELPRO to bad-jacket him as a police informer, which led to Pratt's expulsion from the BPP in August 1970. 2004 December, Kobie Colemon, “3rd Chamber: African American Nationalist Thought and Action”, in The Revolutionary Vol. 1 A Black People's History of Armed Resistance to Racism and Other Forms of Oppression, United States of America: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 79:
   • Stokely Carmichael’s neutralization took a rather different form. Utilizing the services of Peter Cardoza, an infiltrator who had worked his way into a position as the SNCC leader’s bodyguard, the Bureau applied a "bad jacket," deliberately creating the false appearance that Carmichael was himself an operative. 1990, Ward Churchill, Jim Vander Wall, chapter 5, in The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States, South End Press, →ISBN, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2025:

Forms

Deriveds

pedojacket · fashjacket

Hyponyms

snitch-jacket