right-click

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right-click (third-person singular simple present right-clicks, present participle right-clicking, simple past and past participle right-clicked)

  1. (intransitive, computing) To press the right-hand button on a computer mouse.
  2. (transitive, computing) To activate (an item on the screen) by right-clicking while the pointer is over it.
    • 2005, Preston Gralla, Windows XP Power Hound: Teach Yourself New Tricks, page 179:
      You can download Google's deskbar for free [] It automatically installs itself as a toolbar on the Windows XP taskbar, but you have to turn it on by right-clicking the taskbar and choosing Toolbars → Google Deskbar.

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