bad-jacket
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.29 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To create suspicion around (a person) through the spreading of rumors, manufacture of evidence and disinformation, etc.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "Stokely Carmichael’s neutralization took a rather different form. Utilizing the services of Peter Cardoza, an infiltrator who had worked his way into a position as the SNCC leader’s bodyguard, the Bureau applied a "bad jacket," deliberately creating the false appearance that Carmichael was himself an operative."
- "The F.B.I. then launched a COINTELPRO to bad-jacket him as a police informer, which led to Pratt's expulsion from the BPP in August 1970."
Etymology
Etymology tree Middle English badde English bad Old French jaque Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Late Latin -ittus Old French -et Middle French jacquetbor. English jacket English bad-jacket From bad + jacket; see jacket (“(slang) a police record”).