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- noun computing, nonstandard Plural form of
mouse . As used as a computer peripheral. - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
mouse .
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Examples
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Diebold reportedly solved this problem by providing the state with over 5,000 'mouses' to replace the touch screen.
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One of a few "mouses" a cartoon of a real mouse with a cable for a tail, this computer mouse with a nose and ears, and another like this with a tail .... it was actually great fun and the results were very nice and made the client laugh too.
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Yes | No | Report from matt wasson wrote 5 weeks 3 hours ago mouses, waxes, minnows, and a assortment of teardrops, and even some swedish pimples does the trick!
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Where I previously worked anti-police support staff used to remove the mouses from ‘their’ computer terminals to prevent officers from using the terminals on a night shift. xxx
The Wrong Kind Of Snow « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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The cover for Makers does a great job of hinting and implying at the events taking place within its pages: a stacked wall of old, abandoned keyboards, with hanging connector cords; occasional mouses squeezed in here and there, cables also dangling.
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Yes | No | Report from matt wasson wrote 5 weeks 3 hours ago mouses, waxes, minnows, and a assortment of teardrops, and even some swedish pimples does the trick!
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PC World - the mouses situation is outrageous while not wholly surprising.
The Wrong Kind Of Snow « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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I find it annoying to have to unplug and plug back in my USB mouse from my laptop, I can't imagine having to hook in printers, and monitors and mouses and music synthesizers and etc everytime I got home and needed to work.
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Where I previously worked anti-police support staff used to remove the mouses from ‘their’ computer terminals to prevent officers from using the terminals on a night shift …. you know …. to put on crime reports, type statements, generally facilitate bad people being locked up.
The Wrong Kind Of Snow « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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"Then he did the same thing to the other Whos' houses leaving crumbs much too small for the other Whos' mouses!"
World According to Dr. Seuss Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
Logophile77 commented on the word mouses
I may be incorrect, but I'm pretty sure "computer mice" is incorrect.
December 18, 2017
alexz commented on the word mouses
It may be 'incorrect' in a strunk sense, but in usage...
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=computer%20mouses,computer%20mice
and
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=keyboards+and+mice%2C+keyboards+and+mouses&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Ckeyboards%20and%20mice%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Ckeyboards%20and%20mouses%3B%2Cc0
December 18, 2017