Usually means: Unlocking device to bypass restrictions.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word jailbreak:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. jailbreak: Merriam-Webster
  2. jailbreak: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jailbreak: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. jailbreak: Collins English Dictionary
  5. jailbreak: Vocabulary.com
  6. Jailbreak, jailbreak: Wordnik
  7. jailbreak: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. jailbreak: Wiktionary
  9. jailbreak: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. jailbreak: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. jailbreak: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. jailbreak: Dictionary.com
  13. Jailbreak (Apple), Jailbreak (TV series), Jailbreak (Thin Lizzy song), Jailbreak (album), Jailbreak (computer science), Jailbreak (disambiguation), Jailbreak (iOS), Jailbreak (iPhone OS), Jailbreak (webcomic), Jailbreak: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. jailbreak: Rhymezone
  15. jailbreak: FreeDictionary.org
  16. jailbreak: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. jailbreak: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. jailbreak: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Jailbreak (disambiguation), Jailbreak (song), jailbreak: Legal dictionary

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. Technopedia (No longer online)
  3. Jailbreak (disambiguation), Jailbreak (song): Encyclopedia
  4. jailbreak: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jailbreak: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jailbreak: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary

(Note: See jailbreaking as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An escape from prison.
noun:  (computing) A modification to the firmware of an electronic device (typically a mobile phone or tablet) to allow the installation and use of software not officially supported by the device's manufacturer.
noun:  (artificial intelligence) A prompt to a large language model which frees it from its ethical restrictions.
noun:  (ice hockey) A rule present in some ice hockey leagues that causes a penalty to end if the short-handed team scores.
noun:  A goal scored in this situation.
verb:  To escape from prison.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To modify the firmware of an electronic device, especially a mobile phone, in order to remove restrictions that prevent it from running unofficial software.
verb:  (artificial intelligence) To free a large language model from its ethical restrictions using prompt injection.
verb:  (ice hockey) To score while short-handed in a league with the "jailbreak" rule.

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