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Meaning of fat-fingered in English:

fat-fingered

adjective

informal

See fat finger

‘It was just one digit removed from Pizza Hut, a digit fat-fingered dialers found with unnerving precision on a Friday night.’
  • ‘Talk to me about, was it the uncertainty as to what the EU would do that led to the big sell-off last Thursday and all this talk of fat-fingered trading?’
  • ‘Even small, fat-fingered typing mistakes cause regret.’
  • ‘Initially, strategists speculated that a fat-fingered trader could be to blame for the early tumble, saying it appeared to have been a blip caused by a mistaken trade, possibly by someone typing in the wrong price.’
  • ‘The official explanation was that it was a fat-fingered trade, caused by someone inputting the wrong data on stock orders.’