0 a piece of equipment, like a jacket without sleeves, that is filled with air or light material and is designed to help you float if you fall into water --
1 a piece of equipment that looks like a jacket without sleeves and that is filled with air or light material designed to help someone float if the person falls into the water --
He was given his own life jacket and once suffered a broken paw after a mishap.
Routine and consistent life jacket wear during all water activities can make the difference between life and death.
The skier should know how to swim, but he or she should wear a life jacket regardless of swimming ability.
She was carrying other personal documents in a waterproof plastic bag on her body, and was also wearing a life jacket under her clothes.
An immersion suit can be worn in conjunction with a life jacket or designed with an inbuilt life jacket, which can be classed as a life jacket.
I think that men wearing such a life jacket could work, even on a fishing boat in rough weather, without any undue obstruction to their movements.
I am not sure whether clunk-click is the right description, but the habit of wearing a life jacket will eventually become difficult to break.
Many fishermen have been lost overboard because they were not wearing a life jacket.
