Describes a fabric patch with mismatched patterns that's been sewn onto damaged fabric to fix the clothing. British WW2 slang named after a comic strip called "Jimmy and his Magic Patch" that appeared in The Beano in 1944, a story about a schoolboy who frequently time-traveled by accident thanks to a patch sewn on the back of his school trousers.
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