keytap

English

Etymology

key +‎ tap

Noun

keytap (plural keytaps)

  1. A keypress.
    • 1989, Clifford Stoll, The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage:
      Lee Cheng popped on the phone line. "Right. I'm tracing it." More keytaps, this time with a few beeps thrown in.
    • 2011, Vikram Chandra, Love and Longing in Bombay:
      She was writing code in quick little flurries of keytaps.
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