pea jacket

1. 1.

   a sailor's heavy woolen double-breasted jacket

   Synonymspeacoat

   Broaderjacket

Questions about pea jacket

What does pea jacket mean?

pea jacket means "a sailor's heavy woolen double-breasted jacket".

What is another word for pea jacket?

Close synonyms include peacoat. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pea jacket a common word?

pea 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.