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double-click

[ duhb-uhl-klik ]

verb (used without object)

  1. to click a mouse button twice in rapid succession, as to open a program or select a file:

    Double-click on the desktop icon.



verb (used with object)

  1. to double-click (a mouse button) or double-click (a program, file, etc.)
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Other Words From

  • dou·ble click noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of double-click1

First recorded in 1980–85
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Example Sentences

There was a double click and the bonds tightened painfully, pressing the chafed red skin white.

Whether his acute sense of hearing had enabled him to locate the point whence came the double click, Larry did not wait to see.

Next minute I heard the double click of a cannon and my hair sat up.

Then came a double click, and Jesse Pelter found himself handcuffed.

A double click followed, a familiar sound to Durham—the click of snapping handcuffs.

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