PUNCH IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does punch in mean? 

• PUNCH IN (verb)
  The verb PUNCH IN has 1 sense:

1. register one's arrival at work

  Familiarity information: PUNCH IN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUNCH IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Register one's arrival at work

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

clock in; clock on; punch in

Hypernyms (to "punch in" is one way to...):

enter; put down; record (make a record of; set down in permanent form)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Antonym:

punch out (register one's departure from work)

 Context examples 

Mr. Micawber resumed his seat on the close of these remarks, and drank two glasses of punch in grave succession.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I was wedged in between Redruth and a stout old gentleman, and in spite of the swift motion and the cold night air, I must have dozed a great deal from the very first, and then slept like a log up hill and down dale through stage after stage, for when I was awakened at last it was by a punch in the ribs, and I opened my eyes to find that we were standing still before a large building in a city street and that the day had already broken a long time.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)