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vb. (context intransitive English) To enter a workplace by punching a time card
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Usage examples of "punch in".
But beyond that, Bobby, and I know it's a punch in the face, she planned, she covered up, she used.
As it was, he hunched up, fists clenched and muscles tense, bracing for a smash across the knuckles or a punch in the face.
We both processed through customs and met our respective organization representatives to punch in our start time and then we boarded the ETO rocket.
Stamping out of Jefferson Hall, cursing under my breath, I decided that a State Department official named Theodore Nadler was the next man I was going to punch in the eye.
He saw her in the back of the van, saw himself giving her a good punch in that lipsticked mouth, ripping at the blouse, necklace sent flying.