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type-in

type-in noun: a program listing, printed in a magazine, etc., to be inputted and run by the reader.

Noun

type-in (plural type-ins)

  1. (dated) A program listing, printed in a magazine, etc., to be inputted and run by the reader.
    • Now, there aren't many magazines for which I'd have been prepared to write the tips pages two years running. And even fewer that would inspire me to compile their type-in pages for month after month. But YS tips and type-ins weren't like other magazines', and I didn't mind doing them at all.1993 Sep, Jonathan Nash, “Jugglers Ahoy!”, in Your Sinclair
    • ...why did we drop the type-ins, people asked. Here's why. In 1979, when COMPUTE!'s first issue appeared, personal computers were scarce. Software for those computers was even scarcer.1994, COMPUTE!

Forms of type-in

pluraltype-ins

Questions about type-in

What does type-in mean?
Type-in means a program listing, printed in a magazine, etc., to be inputted and run by the reader.
What part of speech is type-in?
Type-in is a noun.
What is the plural of type-in?
The plural of type-in is type-ins.

Words near type-in in the dictionary

  1. type-face
  2. type-faces
  3. type-founder
  4. type-founders
  5. type-high
  6. type-in
  7. type-ins
  8. type-safe
  9. type-setting
  10. type-shifting
  11. type-site

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