Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who jets or struts; a spruce fellow.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete One who struts; one who bears himself jauntily; a fop.

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  • noun obsolete One who struts; one who bears himself jauntily; a fop.

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Examples

  • Mason learned the speed-demon joys of water jetting with Steve, the world's most responsible water jetter.

    Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2008

  • TOURE: It's especially true that the slang created by a certain sub-culture tells us what they dream of being -- think of how hip-hop has so many words for money like cream and jetter (ph) and duckets (ph) and loochie (ph) and on and on.

    CNN Transcript Sep 9, 2004 2004

  • Five hundred and forty-two men moved by jetter to Colorado Springs; thence, by helicopter, to the canyon hideaway.

    This Crowded Earth Robert Bloch 1955

  • They came over the canyon that very night; a large group of them in a large jetter.

    This Crowded Earth Robert Bloch 1955

  • The addition of the fustic extract enables a much deeper and jetter shade of black to be dyed.

    The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student Franklin Beech

  • En fin il se jette sur Lisandre, et bien que par derriere on luy baille cent coups de poignards, il le prend, et le souleve, prest à le jetter du haut en bas d'une fenestre, si tous les autres ensemble, en se jettant sur luy, ne l'en eussent empesché.

    Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman

  • I told him that I was extremely sorry that he had quitted the Corps de Noblesse pour se jetter dans le Commerce; but it is at present his only resource.

    George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue

  • All the direct blacks require working in strong baths to give anything like black shades; they all have, more or less, a bluish tone, which can be changed to a jetter shade by the addition of a yellow or green dye in small proportions, which has been done in one of the recipes given above.

    The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student Franklin Beech

  • I told him that I was extremely sorry that he had quitted the Corps de Noblesse pour se jetter dans le Commerce; but it is at present his only resource.

    George Selwyn His Letters and His Life Ed 1899

  • L'on ne doit point jetter sous la table, ou par terre, les os, les ecorces, le vin ou autre chose semblable.

    George Washington's Rules of Civility Conway, M D 1890

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