bumfreezer

noun

bumfreezer

noun

Etymology From bum + freezer.

1

Slang An Eton jacket or other similar short jacket.

  • Seated at table, eating delicious food brought by European migrant waiters in red bumfreezers, I felt that we were all making a very game pretence of reconstructing Europe.1965, Peter Black, The Poms in the Sun:
  • Smaller boys wore short Eton jackets, known as bumfreezers2012, Anne de Courcy, Snowdon: The Biography:
Synonyms
bumfreezer jacket

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