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safari-jacketed en · ADJ

Etymology

From safari jacket + -ed.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Dressed in or wearing a safari jacket.
    • I dislike the heroic school of journalism the swashbuckling safari-jacketed brigade who run off with journalistic prizes for seeing who can get closest to bullets and tanks, as if physical bravery were what it's all about. 1981, Polly Toynbee, The Way We Live Now, page x:
    • The idea that news can be entertaining has surely occurred to Roone Arledge. Two years ago, in safari-jacketed splendor, Arledge emerged from a golden career as head of ABC Sports to take over ABC News as well. 1979, Briton Hadden (editor), Henry Robinson Luce (contributor), Time, volume 114, numbers 10-18, page 83:
    • The safari-jacketed man took a step forward, his hand reaching into his jacket. "This is your only warning. Leave. Now. Before we are forced to take ... more drastic measures." 2025, Chinedu Nnadi, The Ashes Of Empire:
    • On one side of the table sat safari-jacketed bank experts scribbling away in notebooks and sipping from plastic coffee cups; on the other side sat Maasai elders in red loincloths, reciting oral history to bolster their case. 1997, David Western, In The Dust Of Kilimanjaro, page 160: