"keyboard smash" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-keyboard smash.ogg [Australia] Forms: keyboard smashes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} keyboard smash (plural keyboard smashes)
  1. (Internet slang) A seemingly random and unintelligible string of characters, as produced by smashing a keyboard. Tags: Internet Categories (topical): Internet Synonyms: keysmash Related terms: asdfghjkl
    Sense id: en-keyboard_smash-en-noun-Y4up81WZ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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