jacket potato
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2.4
- noun
- /ˈdʒækɪt pəˈteɪtəʊ/
- UK
:
patata al horno
- She ordered a jacket potato with cheese and beans from the café.
Examples
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You could also get a jacket potato with baked beans, beef, chili, cheese, or coleslaw at Costco's in the United Kingdom.
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We're having a jacket potato feast.
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Or you could have some cold tomorrow with a nice jacket potato.
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God, how I missed jacket potatoes, and God, how I enjoyed having one for dinner on my first day back.
Blog text (9) -
I managed to rustle up a jacket potato instead...
Blog text (10) -
You customized, you made jacket potato with beans.
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And he's got his absolute favorite beans and cheese, jacket potato and green beans.
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They ate jacket potatoes and drank hand-pulled beers.
Fiction book (1995) -
Most workers are paid on Saturday night here in Sunderland, so they have money in their pockets for meat pies and jacket potatoes kept warm in barrel ovens; they buy two pennies' worth of greasy herring and a roll to go with it.
Fiction book (2001) -
For dinner, I had a jacket potato topped with sour cream and chives.
Synonyms
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1.0
A potato cooked in its skin in an oven until soft
A whole baked potato served with toppings like cheese or beans
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from the parts: 'jacket' as an outer covering maps onto the potato's skin and 'potato' names the food, so learners can infer a potato served in its skin. The detail that it specifically refers to a baked potato is a culinary convention but does not block the compositional reading, making it readily understandable to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
The name jacket potato comes from the idea that the potato keeps its jacket, its skin, when it is baked, so it means a baked potato eaten 'with the skin left on'.