jailbreak

See also: jail break

English

Etymology

jail +‎ break

Noun

jailbreak (plural jailbreaks)

1. An escape from prison.

Alternative forms

• jail break

Translations

escape from prison

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 越獄／越狱 (zh) (yuèyù), 越狱 (zh) (yuèyù)

• Finnish: vankilapako
• German: Gefängnisausbruch m
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• Japanese: 脱獄 (ja) (datsugoku, だつごく)
• Russian: побег (ru) m (pobeg)
• Spanish: fuga (es) f, huida de cárcel f
• Turkish: hapisten kaçış, hapisten kaçma

Verb

jailbreak (third-person singular simple present jailbreaks, present participle jailbreaking, simple past jailbroke, past participle jailbroken)

1. To escape from prison.
2. (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.

   Synonym: root

   • 2012, Ole Henry Halvorsen, Douglas Clarke, OS X and iOS Kernel Programming, Apress (→ISBN), page 21:

     Unofficially, it has been possible to “Jailbreak” iOS and gain access to the underlying Unix and kernel environment, but this voids the warranty.

   • 2016, Mike Meyers, CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, Ninth Edition (Exams 220-901 & 220-902), McGraw Hill Professional (→ISBN), page 1172:

     In order to gain true root access to a mobile device, a user has to either jailbreak (iOS) or root (Android/Windows) the device.

Usage notes

• The inflected forms of jailbreak are very rare for the sense "escape from prison".

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Spanish

Noun

jailbreak m (plural jailbreaks)

1. jailbreak