1. to punch (a hole or holes) in something before a later process or use
Usage: transitive verb; common in manufacturing and office contexts

Examples

• The factory will prepunch the metal sheets before sending them to the assembly line.
• We need to prepunch the cards so they fit into the machine.
• She prepunched all the documents before binding them together.
• The printer can prepunch holes in the paper automatically.
• They prepunched the leather before stitching the pieces together.