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rightclick

rightclick is the alternative form of right-click.

Meaning of right-click

Verb

right-click (third-person singular simple present right-clicks, present participle right-clicking, simple past and past participle right-clicked)

  1. (intransitive) To press the right-hand button on a computer mouse.
  2. (transitive) To activate (an item on the screen) by right-clicking while the pointer is over it.
    • You can download Google's deskbar for free […] It automatically installs itself as a toolbar on the Windows XP taskbar, but you have to turn it on by right-clicking the taskbar and choosing Toolbars → Google Deskbar.2005, Preston Gralla, Windows XP Power Hound: Teach Yourself New Tricks, page 179

Forms of rightclick

third-person singular presentrightclicks
present participlerightclicking
past participlerightclicked
pastrightclicked

Questions about rightclick

What is rightclick the alternative form of?
Rightclick is the alternative form of right-click.

Words near rightclick in the dictionary

  1. rightable
  2. rightabout
  3. rightabouts
  4. rightard
  5. rightards
  6. rightclick
  7. rightclicked
  8. rightclicking
  9. rightclicks
  10. rightdoer
  11. rightdoers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rightclick (page history and authors); right-click (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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