hotkey
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hotkey (plural hotkeys)
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keyboard shortcut — see keyboard shortcut
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hotkey (third-person singular simple present hotkeys, present participle hotkeying, simple past and past participle hotkeyed)
- (computing, intransitive) To navigate by means of a keyboard shortcut.
- 1988, PC Mag, volume 7, number 21, page 183:
- 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.