bluejacketEtymologyFrom blue + jacket.nounA seaman of a British warship“It never entered his mind that here was a matter which from its extreme questionableness, it was his duty as a loyal blue-jacket to report in the proper quarter.”An enlisted man in the US Navy.“[…] drift like tear-starting smoke across these exciting pages written by a bluejacket of the U.S. Navy.”A uniformed policeman.“He told me that Buster took her face 'bout right off. Said there's guts and hair everyplace. There's a platoon or so of Payton's bluejackets up there on the View now.”An Ohio spiderwort (Tradescantia ohiensis).