the hitting of random keys on a keyboard to express emotion
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
You need to (hide your confusion) so that it’s part of a broader thing people are doing. You don’t just kind of KEYSMASH all over the place. You also want to be witty while you’re doing it.
Clive Thomson contributor: New York Times / WIRED
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keysmashing noun (kee-smash)
Keysmashing is the action done when someone is experiencing extreme emotion - generally happiness or frustration - by slamming hands down on the keyboard and hitting random letters/keys. It can be in all Caps, lowercase or a mixture of both.
Urban Dictionary
--- ORIGIN
Keysmash combines the words key (referring to a keyboard) and smash "to hit or strike (something) with force." It entered English in the mid- to late 1990s.
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