mouso

plural mousos

1. rareslangcomputingAn error caused by incorrect use of a computer mouse.

   Near-synonym: clicko

   3 more examples

   In general I think it is poor sportsmanship to gain on a^([sic]) opponent _physical_ slip (mouso, typo and such), but quite ok on _mental_ slips. I find it equally bad sport to _ask_ for undo, on a mental slip.

   1995 August 12, Tommy Thorn, “Re: Undo or Not”, in rec.games.go (Usenet)

   Nice. How do you get it to back up, or start over? I made a mouso and now it's unsolveable.

   1998 October 23, in...@fdhoekstra.nl, “Re: [I] Rubik's Cube”, in alt.fan.pratchett (Usenet)

   Just last night, I was selecting multiple files for deletion. I made a "mouso" and Windows thought I had double-clicked a bat file. I was reduced to ejecting the diskette to stop that batch file.

   1999 February 26, Stan Brown, “Re: Gravity - Two Questions”, in alt.usenet.offline-reader (Usenet)