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Definition of fat-finger
fat-finger 
noun
- an instance of fat-fingering.
Citation from ""Fat finger" role in selloff likely a myth", Reuters, Dan Wilchins, May 7 2010 blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.- See more words with the same meaning: a mistake, bad idea, wrong, inappropriate.
Last edited on May 13 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on May 08 2010.
verb - transitive
- To accidentally press an adjacent button, e.g. while typing on a keyboard or entering a phone number. Happens more frequently as the button size is reduced, e.g. on cell phones.
Whoops, I just fat-fingered his phone number.
- See more words with the same meaning: computer slang.
- See more words with the same meaning: to make a mistake, be incorrect, err.
Last edited on May 08 2010. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Sep 28 2009.
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