Jailbreak, v.

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From Slashdot:
>
> "They are trying to ... demonstrate why hackers want to_jailbreak_ the iPhone."
>
> From Urban Dictionary:
>
> "JAILBREAK: to crack an iPhone so that it can run 3rd party programs,
> just like how you were able to install other programs w/PSP"

Noted here a few months ago by Benjamin Barrett, along with
"jailbroken", "unjailbreak", etc.:

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0805D&L=ADS-L&P=R382


--Ben Zimmer

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