Meaning of jack in | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To stop doing a regular activity, such as a job or studying.
   British, idiomatic, transitive
2. To insert an electronic coupling into a receptacle; to connect to something, whether involving a physical medium or not.
3. To connect a brain directly to a computer.
   ambitransitive

Examples

“I've had enough of working nights, so I'm going to jack in my job.”

“I'm going to jack my job in.”

“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.”

“Watchman replaced him in the linkup seat. He jacked himself into the computer.”

“Seven days and he'd jack in. If he closed his eyes now, he'd see the matrix.”

“She couldn't move, not without that extra skeleton, and it was jacked straight into her brain, myoelectric interface.”

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