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black jacket
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a young hoodlum wearing a black leather jacket.
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1957
The Montreal Police later made a survey and of the two hundred young men in black jackets questioned none owned machines [motorcycles], but the name black jacket, as applied to hoodlums, stuck.