English Explanatory Dictionary

^W

English dictionary entry

Meanings

intj
  1. Delete that last word.

Word forms

^W

Etymology

From the visual representation of the terminal encoding of the keypress Ctrl-W, the "delete back to whitespace" command in GNU readline, which is commonly available in GNU shells and other command-line utilities.

Related words

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