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hotkey

English

Alternative forms

  • hot key

Etymology

hot +? key

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?h?tki?/
  • Hyphenation: hot?key

Noun

hotkey (plural hotkeys)

  1. (computing) A keyboard shortcut.

Translations

Verb

hotkey (third-person singular simple present hotkeys, present participle hotkeying, simple past and past participle hotkeyed)

  1. (computing, intransitive) To navigate by means of a keyboard shortcut.
    • 1988, PC Mag (volume 7, number 21, page 183)
      All of the sales talk about hotkeying between 3270 sessions and DOS applications sounds great until you try to squeeze the DOS applications into the PC while it's emulating a terminal.

Anagrams

  • yoketh

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hokey

English

Alternative forms

  • hokie, hoaky, hoky

Etymology

From the verb hoke (“to give an artificial feel to”), from hokum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?h??ki/
  • (US) IPA: /?ho?ki/
    Rhymes: -??ki

Adjective

hokey (comparative hokier, superlative hokiest)

  1. (US, colloquial) phony, as if a hoax; noticeably contrived; of obviously flimsy credibility or quality
  2. (US, colloquial) corny; overly or unbelievably sentimental
    Synonyms: cheesy, kitschy

Related terms

  • hokiness
  • hoke
  • hokum

Translations

See also

  • Hokey Cokey
  • hokeypokey
  • hokey-tokey

Further reading

  • “hokey”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

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