I have always called a light top with a full zipper to be a jacket, however the people I’m surrounded by insist on calling it a sweatshirt. I’m prepared to be wrong, just wondering if I’m the only one.

  • talEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Sounds like it!

    https://www.oed.com/dictionary/sweatshirt_n?tl=true

    The earliest known use of the noun sweatshirt is in the 1920s.

    OED’s earliest evidence for sweatshirt is from 1929, in Sears, Roebuck Catalogue.

    EDIT: I never really thought about the word until now, realized that it’s a portmanteau of “sweater” and “shirt”.