Hotkey

//ˈhɒtkiː// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A keyboard shortcut.
Verb
  1. 1
    To navigate by means of a keyboard shortcut. intransitive

    "All of the sales talk about hotkeying between 3270 sessions and DOS applications sounds great until you try to squeeze the DOS applications into the PC while it's emulating a terminal."

Synonyms

All synonyms
keyboard shortcutkeyboard shortcut

Example

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"What's the hotkey for inserting a non-breaking space?"

Etymology

From hot + key.

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