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hotkey

  • /ˈhɒtkiː/

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From hot + key.

noun hotkeys · hot key

  1. A keyboard shortcut.

verb hotkeys · hotkeying · hotkeyed · hot key

  1. intransitive To navigate by means of a keyboard shortcut. 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.

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@misc{hotkey_2026,
  title = {hotkey},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hotkey},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}