Fat-finger

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From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  fat-finger vt. 1. To introduce a typo while editing in such a way that
     the resulting manglification of a configuration file does something
     useless, damaging, or wildly unexpected. "NSI fat-fingered their DNS
     zone file and took half the net down again." 2. More generally, any typo
     that produces dramatically bad results.