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Define Alt-tab Meaning

Alt-tab
The two miracle keys that can mean the difference between safety or a detention

'Dan! The teacher's coming! You better alt-tab your meme collection!'
By Pen
Alt-tab
The act of using the ALT+TAB keys to jump from application to application (Or document to document), or in the workplace, using those keys to hide the website of non working nature to go back to an open document looking like you're doing real work.

I hate that I can't alt-tab between Visio documents.

When Art heard the boss's footsteps, he quickly alt-tabbed to a spreadsheet, hiding the streaming pr0n he had been lookin at.
By Giacinta
ALT + Tab
Alt + Tab is a combination to switch tabs on most PCs, making it an easy way to fool teachers and other people into thinking you're doing what you're supposed to be doing.

Person 1: Holy shit, moms coming!
Person 2: I better ALT + Tab to my homework before she catches me...
By Yolane
Alt-tabbed
Accidentally hitting alt and tab, changing the program you are currently in. This is most irritating when you are playing an online game that takes up the entire screen.

Damnit, I alt-tabbed and lost sound. Brb gg.
By Nicky
Alt-Tab
To overtly change the subject of a conversation.

I'm going to Alt-Tab us right now back over to what we were talking about previously: Brown Chicken, Brown Cow
By Mommy
Alt-tabbed
In Ragnarok Online and other games, the art of looking at other websites while playing at the same time using alt and tab. Warning: Do not do this in the middle of battle, else your team mates will eat you alive.

"Oi, Xero, we're dying here! ...Xero?? Aw, damnit, don't tell me you're alt-tabbed again!"
By Caitrin
Alt+Tab Fever
(n.) Condition where a game or application doesn't take kindly to Alt+Tabbing and always manages to fuck itself up somehow when you Alt+Tab. (This could mean graphical artifacting, glitching, freezing, or just plain refusing to open up again, among other prognoses).

Fallout 3 has Alt+Tab fever. Every time I tab in, the pots are on the fritz, my pip boy goes black, and the world promptly ceases to exist!

Skyrim has a minor case of Alt+Tab fever, because you have to tab in twice to get it started again.

Any game released before 1999 can be safely assumed to have Alt+Tab Fever. Good luck tabbing back into that.
By Sherill
Alt Tab Warrior
Someone who constantly switches windows when someone coming into the room while their watching something they shouldn't

"I was watching some sweet porn the other day, to bad I had to keep pressing alt tab because my mom was cleaning my room"

"You are a true alt tab warrior"
By Aloysia