Meaning of Jacky Howe | Babel Free

Definitions

A type of blue sleeveless shirt worn by sheep shearers and labourers.

Australia

Examples

“Still, no one has ever thought before of associating a papaw with a “Jacky Howe,” or, say, fruit salad with a flannel shirt.”

“1949, Ruth Park, Poor Man's Orange, in 2010, The Harp in the South Trilogy, Penguin, unnumbered page, He had finished his tea and was sitting in his Jackie Howe, which is a singlet with the sleeves out of it, and called after a famous shearer of the blade days.”

“As the Jacky Howe was identified with the canecutter so too were the canvas sandshoes which were worn till the canvas rotted.”

“The coppers tell me that whenever they pull the old curmudgeon over — and he′s still driving a B-Model Mack well into his eighties — all he would ever be wearing was a Jacky Howe singlet* and a pair of jocks.”

“Men in shorts and navy Jacky Howe singlets were building a causeway across the spill of swift, shallow water.”

“Occasionally I would see their innards revealed by a gang of men in Jackie Howes with jack-hammers and chinking mattocks picked^([sic]) the sleepers clean of ballast like bull ants cleaning up a fish′s frame.”

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