biking jacket

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Noun

biking jacket (plural biking jackets)

  1. A thick jacket (usually made of leather) designed to be worn while riding a motorcycle.
    • 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 9, in The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 201:
      [] a morose middle-aged fellow who appeared at the Corry in a suit on weekday evenings but on Saturdays and Sundays was transformed by heavy boots, jeans and biking jacket, the ensemble looking just a trifle too much for him.
    • 1991, Hazel Holt, chapter 12, in The Cruellest Month, New York: Onyx, published 1992, page 166:
      “Have you got something respectable to wear?”
      “I shall wear my best biking jacket with the Yamaha badge—of course I’ve got something respectable!”
    • 2011 July 23, “Stars shine at Dhoni’s London charitable party”, in Daily News and Analysis:
      [] John Abraham’s favourite biking jacket and helmet were also sold at the fund-raiser.

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