to connect one's brain directly to a computer or cybernetic device by means of a cybernetically implanted data jack
Watchman replaced him in the linkup seat. He jacked himself into the computer.
Your nervous system would fall out on the floor if you jacked in now.
Its rainbow pixel maze was the first thing he saw when he woke. He'd go straight to the deck, not bothering to dress, and jack in…. He jacked in and worked for nine straight hours.
Buy Beyond Cyberpunk, jack in, and learn a lot of the stuff you need to know to get—in Rudy Rucker’s brilliant term—‘culturally online.’
The last man on Earth who has neglected to have his neural corridors jacked into the universal net.
There’s so much to digest in this edition that you feel like you’re pushing that metal spike into the back of your head and jacking in.
antedating 1970
Earliest cite in the OED: 1984.
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