bluejacket

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bluejacket

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From blue + jacket.

noun bluejackets

A seaman of a British warship It never entered his mind that here was a matter which from its extreme questionableness, it was his duty as a loyal blue-jacket to report in the proper quarter.
Similar: sailor
An enlisted man in the US Navy. […] drift like tear-starting smoke across these exciting pages written by a bluejacket of the U.S. Navy.
A uniformed policeman. He told me that Buster took her face 'bout right off. Said there's guts and hair everyplace. There's a platoon or so of Payton's bluejackets up there on the View now.
An Ohio spiderwort (Tradescantia ohiensis).
Similar: Confederate spiderwort, snotgrass, snot grass, snotweed, cowslobber

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"bluejacket." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/bluejacket. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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@misc{bluejacket_2026,
  title = {bluejacket},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bluejacket},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}