Crossword-Solution: VEST 4 letters, 258 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Vest	n.	An article of clothing covering the person; an outer garment; a vestment; a dress; a vesture; a robe.
Vest	n.	Any outer covering; array; garb.
Vest	n.	Specifically, a waistcoat, or sleeveless body garment, for men, worn under the coat.
Vest	n.	To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.
Vest	n.	To clothe with authority, power, or the like; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; -- followed by with before the thing conferred; as, to vest a court with power to try cases of life and death.
Vest	n.	To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; -- with in before the possessor; as, the power of life and death is vested in the king, or in the courts.
Vest	n.	To invest; to put; as, to vest money in goods, land, or houses.
Vest	n.	To clothe with possession; as, to vest a person with an estate; also, to give a person an immediate fixed right of present or future enjoyment of; as, an estate is vested in possession.
Vest	v. i.	To come or descend; to be fixed; to take effect, as a title or right; -- followed by in; as, upon the death of the ancestor, the estate, or the right to the estate, vests in the heir at law.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
VEST	anagram	STEV, VETS

We have 258 clues for the answer “VEST”

Clue	Answers
"Safety" garment	1 answer
131 Angler's apparel	1 answer
A piece of a three-piece	1 answer
A singlet	1 answer
A tie may be partly under one	1 answer
American waistcoat	1 answer
An undergarment for the upper body	1 answer
Article of Western wear	1 answer
Bartender's wear	1 answer
Become available, as a stock grant	1 answer
Become owned, as a pension	1 answer
Bit of SWAT garb	1 answer
Brit's undershirt	1 answer
Brit's waistcoat, here	1 answer
British undershirt	1 answer
Bulletproof garment	1 answer
Bulletproof item, perhaps	1 answer
Bulletproof wear	1 answer
Buttoned item	1 answer
Close place for cards	1 answer
Clothing item associated with Annie Hall	1 answer
Clothing item worn over a shirt	1 answer
Clothing worn on the top on the body	1 answer
Commit to another	1 answer
Common item of fishing apparel	1 answer
Confer, as authority	1 answer
Confer, as power	1 answer
Cop's protective garb	1 answer
Cop's protector	1 answer
Crossing guard's garment	1 answer
Cummerbund alternative	1 answer
Dickey kin	1 answer
Down garment	1 answer
Down garment, maybe	1 answer
Ed Norton garment	1 answer
Ed Norton wore one	1 answer
Ed Norton's wear	1 answer
Endow (with)	1 answer
Endow with a right	1 answer
Endow with authority	1 answer
Endow with power	1 answer
Endow with rights	1 answer
Feature of many a suit	1 answer
Fishing apparel with lots of pockets	1 answer
Flak jacket, e.g.	1 answer
Flak jacket, for one	1 answer
Garment close to cards, for some	1 answer
Garment for an angler	1 answer
Garment for brisk days	1 answer
Garment in a Woody costume	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

AERTE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with VEST (5)

His dress seemed an acknowledgment of his grotesqueness: a short coat, like a little boys’ roundabout, and a vest fantastically sprigged and dotted, over a lavender shirt.

The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992

For dress the insect wore a dark-blue swallowtail coat with a yellow silk lining and a flower in the button-hole; a vest of white duck that stretched tightly across the wide body; knickerbockers of fawn-colored plush, fastened at the knees with gilt buckles; and, perched upon its small head, was jauntily set a tall silk hat.

The Marvellous Land of Oz L. Frank Baum 1993

The Princess then opened the door to Aladdin, and flung her arms around his neck; but Aladdin went to the dead magician, took the lamp out of his vest, and bade the genie carry the palace and all in it back to China.

Aladdin and the Magic Lamp Unknown 1993

This one has just been striking out a smart thing, and now he is sitting there with his thumbs in his vest-holes, gloating.

What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

And have not the bank directors a meeting at which it was the Judge’s purpose to be present, and his office to preside? Indeed they have; and the hour is noted on a card, which is, or ought to be, in Judge Pyncheon’s right vest-pocket.

The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993

Quotes with VEST (3)

Just for future reference, don't use words like "love" anymore. It's a very sensitive word and it wears out quickly. Romeo barely says it, but John Hinckley filled up a whole journal with it. To put it into your terms, it's a currency that's easily devalued. Pretty soon you're saying it whenever you hang up the phone or whenever you leave. It turns into an apology. Then it's an excuse. Some assholes want it to be a bulletproof vest: don't hate me; I love you. But mostly it ju…

Peter Craig Hot Plastic

Is that a bulletproof vest? See, now that's so insulting. That's like saying I'm not smart enough to shoot you in the head." Eddie DeChooch

Janet Evanovich Seven Up

He was just a small church parson when the war broke out, and he Looked and dressed and acted like all parsons that we see. He wore the cleric's broadcloth and he hooked his vest behind. But he had a man's religion and he had a stong man's mind. And he heard the call to duty, and he quit his church and went. And he bravely tramped right with 'em every- where the boys were sent. He put aside his broadcloth and he put the khaki on; Said he'd come to be a soldier and was going t…

Edgar A. Guest

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYM, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Slate, Three Across, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 336 times in crossword archives (1954–2025).