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Punch in   /pəntʃ ɪn/   Listen
Punch in

verb
1.
Register one's arrival at work.  Synonyms: clock in, clock on.






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"Punch in" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Chevalier, abandoning this comic picture, and "squaring off" at his reflection in the mirror, in the most approved style of the pugilistic art—as if he were about to give himself a "punch in the head," for being such a funny, clever dog; "bravo! I'll go and get the cheque cashed at once; and then hurrah for a brilliant season of glorious dissipation! But, my Duchess, how the devil did you mange to ...
— Venus in Boston; - A Romance of City Life • George Thompson

... punch in the ribs, playfullike, and, arter telling me I was worth my weight in gold-dust, went ...
— Ship's Company, The Entire Collection • W.W. Jacobs

... people, Mac, want something that hits 'em straight between the eyes and gives 'em a kick in the stomach as well. The best way to make a man sit up and take a bit of notice is to hit him a punch on the jaw, and the best way to make the public feel sympathetic is to hit it a punch in the heart!..." ...
— The Foolish Lovers • St. John G. Ervine

... threw, perhaps, twenty-five shells all told. The first eight or ten failed to explode for the reason that the fuses had not been punched. Finally, Capt. Ennis discovered that his shells were not exploding, and, on inquiry, found that there was no fuse-punch in the battery. He succeeded in finding a brad-awl, which, luckily, some member of the battery had in his pocket, and showed a sergeant how to punch the fuse with a brad-awl. After this the mortar shells exploded all right. ...
— The Gatlings at Santiago • John H. Parker

... "I've seen jacks in this pond that would make no more bones of swallowing a leg or an arm of such an atomy as you, if they did not have a try at the whole body, than a shark would of bolting down Punch in the show; as to carp, everybody that ever fished a pond knows their tricks. Catch them in a net if you can. They swim round and round, just to let you look at 'em, and then they drop plump into the mud, and lie as still and as close as so many stones. But come, ...
— Aunt Deborah • Mary Russell Mitford


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