keysmashing

the hitting of random keys on a keyboard to express emotion

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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

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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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