WordNet
backspace key
n. the typewriter key used for back spacing [syn: backspacer]
Usage examples of "backspace key".
For example, when you make a mistake in typing, it's nice to hit the backspace key and not see ^H^H^H on your screen.
Tregare checked his list against Backspace Key's and found less than a dozen colonies unaccounted for, and fifteen ships.
He found the backspace key, deleted the Z, and carefully moved his forefinger to A.