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punch in
Also, . Check in at a job upon arrival, as in You have to punch in or you won't get paid , or In this office no one has to punch a clock . This usage alludes to the use of a time clock, which has a button an employee punches or strikes to record the time of arrival on a card. [1920s] Also see punch out , def. 1.
Keyboard data into a computer, as in He was careful about punching in all the payments . [Mid-1900s]
Example Sentences
“I was just in love with a woman and I got punched in the nose, which I deserved.”
Dr Devulapalli said finding out she had been expelled from the party she had served for 10 years "felt like I had been literally punched in the gut".
He was repeatedly punched in the face by Coleman who then took a large knife and stabbed him in the chest before putting it in his mouth.
This is people getting punched in the head.
Kendi — the “X” stands for his middle name, Xolani, a Xhosa and Zulu word for peace — pulls no punches in making such connections.
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