keytap

English

Etymology

From key +‎ tap.

Noun

keytap (plural keytaps)

1. A keypress.
   • 1989, Clifford Stoll, The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage:

     Lee Cheng popped on the phone line. "Right. I'm tracing it." More keytaps, this time with a few beeps thrown in.

   • 2011, Vikram Chandra, Love and Longing in Bombay:

     She was writing code in quick little flurries of keytaps.