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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
fat-finger . - adjective
Clumsy ,careless .
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Examples
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I meant “pro gun” (or “anti-gun control”) and fat-fingered it.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Changes in the Gun Culture over the last 25 years 2010
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With Friday's "flash crash" anniversary, there's bound to be talk of fat-fingered errors like the one initially blamed for that mess.
Overheard 2011
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The administrative officer followed, meaty-handed and fat-fingered.
Venom Joan Brady 2010
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I meant “pro gun” or “anti-gun control” and fat-fingered it.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Changes in the Gun Culture over the last 25 years 2010
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Reaching for a candle, she would snatch the flame with a fat-fingered monkey pinch.
Beard 2010
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Traders have a phrase for transactions in which somebody - as reportedly may have happened this week - hit so many zeros by mistake that millions become billions: a fat-fingered trade.
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By the time of Tranby, to be sure, Elspeth was of an age where it should have been unlikely that either Bertie or Cumming would try to drag her behind the sofa, but I still didn't care to think of her within the fat-fingered reach of one or the trim moustache of t'other.
Watershed 2010
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But fat-fingered nail biters like myself will need to carry a ball point pen.
RadioPopper JrX Will Make You Fat and Happy [Full Review] 2009
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JAMES SENSENBRENNER, former House Judiciary Committee Chairman: "An ever-sweating, fat-fingered beast who wields his gavel in a way that makes you think he might have used one before in some other arena, perhaps to beat prostitutes to death."
Matt Taibbi: Erica Jong Thinks I Want to Do My Mother: A Response 2008
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Team Obama is also prepared for fat-fingered Googlers, with meta tags for "Barack, Barck," and "Barek."
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