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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