Fat Finger means that you have made an error at the command line causing some sort of issue that leads to comment. “I must have fat fingered that” or “Fat Finger” syndrome. 
Note: The rise of network automation & SDN is often touted as the solution to human error since a program is repeatable and predictable. Of course, network products, protocols and APIs themselves are rarely predictable or reliable and errors will continue as before.
Other Posts in A Series On The Same Topic
- Network Dictionary - Head Down or Head Up (20th October 2015)
- Network Dictionary - Security Blanket Failure (15th September 2015)
- Network Dictionary - Fat Finger (12th September 2015)
- Network Dictionary: Blast Radius (24th June 2015)
- Network Dictionary - Invariant (14th October 2014)
- Network Dictionary: Technical Debt (11th April 2014)
- Network Dictionary - Bias Update (3rd February 2014)
- Network Dictionary: Sonic Screwdriver (30th January 2014)
- Network Dictionary - Washing My Patch Cables (2nd November 2011)
- Network Dictionary - Coin Operated (1st November 2011)
- Network Dictionary - Pinch off a Packet (30th October 2011)
- Network Dictionary - Cloudtard (16th September 2011)
- Network Dictionary - Default Gateway of Blame (11th August 2011)
- Network Dictionary - Negotiable Affection (2nd June 2011)
- Network Dictionary - Reverse Recruiting (3rd February 2011)
- Network Dictionary - percussive maintenance (12th October 2010)
- Network Dictionary - Powerpoint Waterboarding (26th August 2010)
- Network Dictionary - Oral Masturbation (12th April 2010)
- Network Dictionary - consultant (24th March 2010)
- Network Dictionary - Eye Dee Ten Tee (30th January 2010)
- Network Dictionary - Moregasm (27th November 2009)
- Network Dictionary - Backhoe Attenuation (9th October 2009)
- Network Dictionary - Blamestorming (14th February 2009)
- Network Dictionary - velvet rut (26th September 2008)
