Meaning of fat-fingered in English:
fat-fingered
adjective
informalSee 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.’
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