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1. a job, career, occupation 2. backronym for "Jail Outside Bars," the idea being that having to perform alienated labor is as oppressive, in its own way, as being in prison. One is in a kind of "jail," even though one is "outside" of any physical "bars" that would force you to stay there.
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