Wiktionary
hot key
n. a keyboard shortcut
Usage examples of "hot key".
He hit a hot key and's encrypting everything that's on his machine.
Finally he fell, charred beyond recognition, his skeletal fingers still clutching the white-hot key.
Then he picked up the Bekkir device, carefully avoiding the still glowing-hot key stuck in the slot, picked up his improvised bucket-sling in the same hand, and headed up the ladder.
Live connections to Dreamland, and from there to the rest of the world, were just a hot key away.