variants:
or delete
or less commonly Delete key
or Delete
Definition of delete key
computers
: a key on a computer keyboard that when pressed deletes either a selected item (such as an icon or a block of text) or the character that immediately follows the cursor in a document
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The first known use of delete key was in 1963
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