Fat-finger

Quick meaning: Fat-finger is a verb meaning (transitive, humorous, informal) 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.

Meaning

(transitive, humorous, informal) 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.

Example Sentences

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.

In general, mobile form designs are "chunkier," using larger input boxes to make it easier to tap in the intended field, even if the user "fat-fingers" it. So make sure to add some extra padding to all your input fields, and also increase the font size a bit so it's not only more legible but also larger on the touchscreen.

Word Forms

• fat-fingers
• fat-fingering
• fat-fingered
• fatfinger

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include misfinger, miskey, mispunch, mistap, mistype, mistouch.

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