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bomber SECOND EDITION 1989   
  [2.] [b.] bomber jacket n. [modelled on the flight jackets worn by U.S.A.F. air-crew], a fashionable style of (usu. leather) jacket, front-zippered and tightly gathered at the waist and cuffs.
 
  1973 Daily News Record 16 Nov. 13 (Advt.), Wool plaid *bomber jacket..with rugged zipper front. 1985 Listener 2 May 5/2 There was the Intourist taxi driver in his Western trainers and Western bomber jacket.