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fatfinger

fatfinger is the alternative form 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 fatfinger

third-person singular presentfatfingers
present participlefatfingering
past participlefatfingered
pastfatfingered

Questions about fatfinger

What is fatfinger the alternative form of?
Fatfinger is the alternative form of fat-finger.

Words near fatfinger in the dictionary

  1. fates
  2. fatesome
  3. FATF
  4. fatface
  5. fatfaces
  6. fatfinger
  7. fatfingered
  8. fatfingering
  9. fatfingers
  10. fatfluencer
  11. fatfluencers

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