jack in
verb- I've had enough of working nights, so I'm going to jack in my job.
- I'm going to jack my job in.
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- And when I came round, after a couple of months of darkness, I found to my surprise that I had jacked in my course and was working in Record and Tape Exchange in Camden.1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 26:
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Business, Computing, Electrical engineering, Electricity, Electromagnetism, Electronics, Energy, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics, Sciences To insert an electronic coupling into a receptacle; to connect to something, whether involving a physical medium or not.
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Literature, Media, Publishing, Science fiction Ambitransitive To connect a brain directly to a computer.
- Watchman replaced him in the linkup seat. He jacked himself into the computer.1970 June, Robert Silverberg, “The Tower of Glass”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, volume 30, number 3, page 141:
- Seven days and he'd jack in. If he closed his eyes now, he'd see the matrix.1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 37:
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- She couldn't move, not without that extra skeleton, and it was jacked straight into her brain, myoelectric interface.1986, William Gibson, “Winter Market”, in Burning Chrome, page 129:
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