[strait.jack.et] also straight.jack.et n (1814) 1: a cover or overgarment of strong material (as canvas) used to bind the body and esp. the arms closely in restraining a violent prisoner or patient
2: something that restricts or confines like a straitjacket
[2]straitjacket also straightjacket vt (1863): to confine in or as if in a straitjacket