1. A long-sleeved jacketlike garment used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent patient or prisoner.
2. Something that restricts, hinders, or confines: the straitjacket of bureaucratic paperwork.
tr.v.strait·jack·et·ed, strait·jack·et·ing, strait·jack·ets also straight·jack·et·ed or straight·jack·et·ing or straight·jack·ets
To restrain, restrict, or hinder by or as if by confining in a straitjacket.
straitjacket
(ˈstreɪtˌdʒækɪt)
n
1. (Clothing & Fashion) Also called: straightjacket a jacket made of strong canvas material with long sleeves for binding the arms of violent prisoners or mentally ill patients
2. a severe restriction or limitation
vb
(tr) to confine in or as if in a straitjacket
strait•jack•et
or straight•jack•et
(ˈstreɪtˌdʒæk ɪt)
n.
1. a garment made of strong material and designed to bind the arms, as of a violent person.
2. anything that severely confines or constricts.
v.t.
3. to put in or as if in a straitjacket.
[1805–15]
straitjacket
Past participle: straitjacketed Gerund: straitjacketing
straitjacket - anything immaterial that severely hinders or confines; "they defected because Russian dance was in a straitjacket"; "the government is operating in an economic straitjacket"
How will you like to see your mother in a straitjacket an' a padded cell, shut out from the light of the sun an' beaten like a nigger before the war, Willie, beaten an' clubbed like a regular black nigger?
It was the straitjacket at home to PSV, not the bad defending away to Wolfsburg on Tuesday, when Van Gaal decided to attack, that doomed United to Thursday nights in the Europa League.
Creating and sharing a CAD-based model or drawing in a professional setting is an entirely different experience; it's the IT equivalent of donning a straitjacket.
But already some of the 26 nations are having second thoughts about binding themselves into a eurozone straitjacket, which can never work without great sacrifice by their people.
straitjacket - anything immaterial that severely hinders or confines; "they defected because Russian dance was in a straitjacket"; "the government is operating in an economic straitjacket"
straitjacket - a garment similar to a jacket that is used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person