To press another button accidentally, while pressing numbers or letters that you meant to, resulting in an incorrect extra number/letter. Such as when typing something, or dialing a phone number.
Pressing the keys on a cell phone, radio, or computer keyboard and getting improper results because your fingers have hit more than one key at a time. A common problem for those of us with pudgy fingers.
I can't use that cell phone. I keep on fat-fingering the buttons, and I keep on getting wrong numbers!
"You didn't get my email? I must have fat fingered the address."
By Therine
Fat Fingers
The syndrome used to describe a person who consistently makes typing errors when chatting or in emails. Fat Fingers is derived from the image that due to their large fingers, they press many letters when only intending to press one.
Steph: Hey why are you on so late?
Kyra: Oh i dunnpahg a aprty
Steph: fat fingers much?
Kyra: sorry i meant i had a party.
By Stefania
Fat Finger
trying to press a link on a social networking site and inadvertantly pressing like on something that is not likable or relevant to you
Tom Cruise's facebook status: "my dog just died"
Justin Bieber likes this.
Justin Bieber commented on TomCruise's status: "Sorry about your loss I tried to press comment but accidentally had fat finger and liked it
reference by apple tech support when users of an iPhone can not use the keyboard to type in phone numbers or passwords correctly. to make light of the small keyboard being the problem.