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fat-fingers

fat-fingers is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fat-finger.

Meaning of fat-finger

Verb

fat-finger (third-person singular simple present fat-fingers, present participle fat-fingering, simple past and past participle fat-fingered)

  1. (humorous, informal, transitive) 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.1995 September 8, “US West software update disconnects online users”, in Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Minn.

Forms of fat-fingers

alternative formfatfingers
alternative formfat fingers

Questions about fat-fingers

What is fat-fingers the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Fat-fingers is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fat-finger.

Words near fat-fingers in the dictionary

  1. fat-cats
  2. fat-chewing
  3. fat-finger
  4. fat-fingered
  5. fat-fingering
  6. fat-fingers
  7. fat-free
  8. fat-gutted
  9. fat-kidneyed
  10. fat-rumped sheep
  11. fat-shame

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fat-fingers (page history and authors); fat-finger (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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