What's the difference between greatcoat and jemmy?

Greatcoat


Definition:

  • (n.) An overcoat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Berlin was bitterly cold at that time in winter, but it was not just the chill that made him shiver under his greatcoat.
  • (2) One key detail that both Leigh and Thompson get right is the ever-present cornflower blue necktie Ruskin wore, knowing that it highlighted his blue eyes, along with a brown-velvet-collared greatcoat.
  • (3) "This is very much how I remember the 1970s," says Gatiss to director Jorge Grau over footage of a corpse in a greatcoat staggering past a Ford Anglia.
  • (4) Somebody kissed the gold of his ring; a few lit pipes; most, in their greatcoats, huddled, waiting for sleep.

Jemmy


Definition:

  • (a.) Spruce.
  • (n.) A short crowbar. See Jimmy.
  • (n.) A baked sheep's head.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That all I could hear – BANG – and I thought, for fuck’s sake, I had a headache, Tel.” One of the men then clambered through the tiny hole to jemmy open 73 of the 550 safe deposit boxes, which they ransacked.
  • (2) Tax credits: power of Lords must be contained after defeat, Grayling says - Politics live Read more The office of Alexander – the Lib Dem chief secretary to the Treasury – was trying to jemmy open a debate that the Tories intended to keep closed.
  • (3) He left padlocked suitcases in the rooms and observed vicars and prim couples jemmy them open.

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