^W
intjEtymology From the visual representation of the terminal encoding of the keypress Ctrl-W, the "delete back to whitespace" command in GNU readline, which is commonly available in GNU shells and other command-line utilities.
- Yeah, he's a real jerk^W civility-challenged fellow.
- Well, Mimi, you’re old enough that you should go to parties now, so this should be your last year to tickle feet^W^W trick-or-treat.
- Related terms
- ^H, in Minecraft, just kidding