backspacing

Variant of backspace

backspace definition

back·space (-spās′)

intransitive verb backspaced -·spaced′, backspacing -·spac′·ing

to move a typewriter carriage, cursor, etc. back along the same line one space at a time by depressing a special key (back′·spac′er)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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