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2014-04-26 10:52:28 -04:00
fat-finger
vt. 1. To introduce a typo while editing in such a way that the resulting manglification of a configuration file does something useless, damaging, or wildly unexpected. NSI fat-fingered their DNS zone file and took half the net down again. 2. More generally, any typo that produces dramatically bad results.