: a fitted waist-length man's jacket worn especially as part of a dress uniform
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Here, Ross’ 1984-era super-padded shoulders take his mess jacket to a cartoonish extreme, but, paired with some sort of baseball cap on backwards, he’s not headed to the Royal Marines’ Christmas ball anyway.—Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
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