Meaning of butt dialing | Babel Free

Definitions

The action of making a call from a cellphone in one's back pocket where its buttons are being inadvertently pressed

Canada, US, colloquial, uncountable

Examples

“I love⟳ this phone because it has GPS on it as well as the flip covers the keypad..so no more purse or butt dialing! LOL”

“[I'm curious why they would include⟳ such a feature in the first place⟳.] Butt dialing. Especially since some phones call⟳ 911 if you hold⟳ down one key on the phone for several seconds, it's easy to accidentally dial 911. On certain Nextel phones you hold⟳ down "9" for a couple of seconds and it dials 911.”

“The Moto-G is the only one without a fingerprint sensor, which probably means it's more vulnerable to butt-dialing, unless they have⟳ new techniques I'm not familiar with.”

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