straitjacket
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straitjacket
- /ˈstɹeɪtˌd͡ʒækɪt/
noun straitjackets · strait jacket · strait-jacket · straightjacket
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A jacketlike garment with very long sleeves which can be secured in place, thus preventing the wearer from moving their arms; formerly often used in psychiatric hospitals to prevent patients from injuring themselves or others.
There’s a couple of people actually wearing duct-tape straitjackets.
Similar: straitwaistcoat
- Any situation seen as confining or restricting. our ever-increasing bureaucratic straitjacket of regulations
verb straitjackets · straitjacketing · straitjacketed · strait jacket · strait-jacket
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To put someone into a straitjacket.
What he asked himself now was,—could Miss Edge and Miss Baker, in order to get him out of the house, have set Birt onto Elizabeth, be in league with the man to break a poor old fellow down by simply driving his sad girl out of her wits? To have her straitjacketted even, muffled in a padded room?
Similar: jacket
- To restrict the freedom of someone or something, either physically or psychologically. Charles for five whole days in a Victorian topper and tailcoat when he practically had to be straitjacketted to get him into tails for a three-hour wedding?
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noun a jacket-like garment
| Español | camisa de fuerza |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 강압복 gang'apbok |
| 日本語 | 拘束衣 kōsokui |
| 中文 | 緊身衣 /紧身衣 jǐnshēnyī, 約束服 /约束服 yuēshùfú, 拘束服 jūshùfú, 拘束衣 jūshùyī, 約束衣 /约束衣 yuēshùyī |
| Português | colete de forças, camisa de força |
| Français | camisole de force |
| Deutsch | Zwangsjacke |
| Italiano | camicia di forza |
| Ελληνικά | ζουρλομανδύας zourlomandýas |
| Română | cămașă de forță |
| Русский | смири́тельная руба́шка smirítelʹnaja rubáška |
verb to put someone into a straitjacket
| Français | camisole de force |
|---|---|
| Română | cămașă de forță |
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title = {straitjacket},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/straitjacket},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
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