English Dictionary

yellow jacket

名詞

アメリカ英語 俗語

(chiefly US) A predatory wasp with alternating black and yellow stripes around the abdomen, usually of the genera Vespula or Dolichovespula.

日本語の意味

（主に米国）腹部に黒と黄色の縞模様がある捕食性のハチ、特にVespula属またはDolichovespula属に属する種

A yellow jacket landed on the rim of my soda can and made the picnic tense.

腹に黒と黄色の縞模様がある肉食のスズメバチが私のソーダ缶の縁に止まり、ピクニックは緊張感が高まった。

意味（1）

(chiefly US) A predatory wasp with alternating black and yellow stripes around the abdomen, usually of the genera Vespula or Dolichovespula.

Yellowjackets (Vespula spp.) and paper wasps (Polistes spp.) are beneficial insects in that they are predators of house flies and insect pests that damage landscape trees and crops.

意味（2）

(slang) A capsule of pentobarbital sodium (or sometimes other barbiturates), especially when used as a recreational drug.

Nearly every pharmaceutical house has its own brands, sold in tablets, solutions or brightly-colored capsules, on which its “detail men” keep doctors informed. Probably the most popular successors to Veronal are Seconal (“red birds” to the bootleg trade) and Nembutal (“yellow jackets”).

意味（3）

Synonym of yellow vest (“member of a French protest movement which started in late 2018”).

Police and hundreds of so-called “yellow jackets” protesting against high taxes and living costs have clashed in Brussels as the movement that started in France two weeks ago gained traction in Belgium.

yellow jackets （ plural ）