adjective
- noting or pertaining to errors made by hitting the wrong key or button on a keyboard, keypad, or number pad: fat-finger dialing errors; a large number of typos evidencing the fat-finger syndrome.
verb (used with object)
- to make an error in or on (something) by hitting the wrong key or button: I must have fat-fingered my username. You can easily fat-finger the tiny keyboard on this device.
verb (intr) informal
- to make a mistake by pressing the wrong key on a keyboard or number pad
- to make an error that causes further problems