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

verb

1. to transfer (data) onto punched cards, paper tape, etc, by using a key punch

Example Sentences

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.”

From New York Times

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.

From New York Times

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

From New York Times

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

From Washington Post

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

From New York Times