hot key

noun

: shortcut sense 3

Examples of hot key in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Operations teams call this noisy neighbors, data modelers call it hot keys, queueing theory calls it head-of-line blocking, and your customer calls it slow. — Manas Chaudhari, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026

No Excel competitor uses a mouse, only hot keys, so Hoaglin’s fingers fly across the keyboard, her glasses changing colors as the tabs change. — Jesse Dougherty, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2026

Things like air-conditioning, seat heating and cooling, and hot keys to jump to various media functions are all proper buttons. — Alex Goy, WIRED, 14 Sep. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1983, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for hot key

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• crappie
• crappy