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key punch

noun

  1. Also calledcard punch a device having a keyboard that is operated manually to transfer data onto punched cards, paper tape, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


verb

  1. to transfer (data) onto punched cards, paper tape, etc, by using a key punch
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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When Burnette was growing up in Cleveland, her mother, who worked as a key punch operator at an electric company, used part of her vacation to take her and her sister to “every museum in Cleveland.”

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She got a job as a key punch operator, but when she learned that a neighbor who worked as a stripper was making twice as much as she was, she changed careers, taking her first job as a go-go dancer in 1969 and soon moving to stripping.

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She was first a key punch operator and then a library clerk.

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Hammett was a department store stock clerk and later a supervisory key punch operator at the Office of Personnel Management.

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The protesters broke through the door to an anteroom filled with key punch machines.

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