fat-finger

verb
/ˈfæt ˈfɪŋɡə/UK/ˈfæt ˈfɪŋɡɚ/US

Etymology

See fat finger.

Definitions

  1. To type (something) erroneously on a keyboard, keypad, or touchscreen by accidentally…

    To type (something) erroneously on a keyboard, keypad, or touchscreen by accidentally pressing with a finger one or more keys other than the intended one.

    • Another Sprint employee speculated that someone might have fatfingered the keyboard.
    • However the other day I fatfingered a web request and got a Charter Communications not found result page
    • “Evidently, someone said they ‘fat-fingered’ a trade, meaning they accidentally put it in for billions instead of millions,” Snyder said.
  2. Alternative form of fat finger.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA