Definition of "leatherjackets" [leatherjackets]

• Plural form of leatherjacket. (noun)

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• "The seagrass beds, 70% of which were lost between the mid seventies and mid eighties, that were home to many of the commercial species like King George whiting, garfish, leatherjackets, calamari et al, have mostly died off and huge numbers of fish that relied on them have disappeared in an environmental disaster."
• "'I'm afraid the old leatherjackets have been boring you."
• "Geoff Somerville, who operates Ibex deep sea fishing charters out of Botany Bay, said that the chinaman leatherjackets had returned to Sydney waters in the past few weeks after several months of making life hell for fishermen on the South Coast."