bomber jacket

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   a jacket gathered into a band at the waist

   Broaderjacket

Questions about bomber jacket

What does bomber jacket mean?

bomber jacket means "a jacket gathered into a band at the waist".

Is bomber jacket a common word?

bomber jacket is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.