jack in
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.82 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To insert an electronic coupling into a receptacle; to connect to something, whether involving a physical medium or not.
Example Sentences
- "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."
Usage
- British usage
- Transitive verb
Inflected Forms
Phrases
jack it in UK