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jack in

verb

  1. slang,  (tr, adverb) to abandon or leave (an attempt or enterprise)

“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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Farron's flag also featured a union jack in one corner.

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Clicking it takes you to a page of Ciattarelli standing proudly with his hands on his hips and the phrase “Blacks Back Jack” in big block letters.

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On June 25, friends, family members and activists gathered outside a Jack in the Box in downtown to decry what they said was the “kidnapping” of a local mother by a group of masked men.

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Investigators tracked Calderon’s movements through cellphone records and surveillance footage that showed her leaving the Jack in the Box parking lot in a sedan parked nearby.

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A teen told The Times in March that officers at Los Padrinos rewarded him with a fast-food “bounty” — In-N-Out, Jack in the Box, McDonald’s — if he beat up kids who misbehaved.

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