right-click

right-click (third-person singular simple present right-clicks, present participle right-clicking, simple past and past participle right-clicked)

1. (intransitive, computing) To press the right-hand button on a computer mouse.
2. (transitive, computing) To activate (an item on the screen) by right-clicking while the pointer is over it.
   • 2005, Preston Gralla, Windows XP Power Hound: Teach Yourself New Tricks, page 179:

     You can download Google's deskbar for free […] It automatically installs itself as a toolbar on the Windows XP taskbar, but you have to turn it on by right-clicking the taskbar and choosing Toolbars → Google Deskbar.

• rightclick

• left-click
• middle-click