keytap

noun

keytap

noun

Etymology From key + tap.

1

A keypress.

  • Lee Cheng popped on the phone line. "Right. I'm tracing it." More keytaps, this time with a few beeps thrown in.1989, Clifford Stoll, The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage:
  • She was writing code in quick little flurries of keytaps.2011, Vikram Chandra, Love and Longing in Bombay:

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