English Dictionary

fat finger

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈfæt ˈfɪŋɡə/

名詞

未分類 限定用法 ユーモラス文体 慣用表現 くだけた表現

(idiomatic, humorous, informal, also attributively) A supposed cause of typographical errors, especially keyboard errors that cause erroneous trades to be executed in financial markets, or typing errors on touchscreen devices.

日本語の意味

（主に金融市場などで）誤った入力が原因で取引が実行されるなど、入力ミスを引き起こす現象（冗談交じりの表現） / キーボードやタッチスクリーンでの操作時に、意図せずに誤ったキーを押してしまうことによるタイプミス

The trader blamed a fat finger for accidentally selling a million shares.

トレーダーは、指の誤操作のために100万株を誤って売却してしまったと主張した。

意味（1）

(idiomatic, humorous, informal, also attributively) A supposed cause of typographical errors, especially keyboard errors that cause erroneous trades to be executed in financial markets, or typing errors on touchscreen devices.

The first subcategory is what I choose to call Fat Fingers Syndrome. This is a problem obviously caused by poor typing techniques which result in a single finger striking two keys instead of one. … The opposite of the fat finger problem is what I call simply the Missed Key(s). This can also result in the writing of real (but wrong) words, such as rod for rode or trace for trance.

fat fingers （ plural ）