control-F

control-F

English

Verb

control-F (third-person singular simple present control-Fs, present participle control-Fing, simple past and past participle control-Fed)

  1. To search for text, as if by using the "Find in page" or similarly named function in a document viewing application, such as a web browser or a word processor.
    • 2021 February 3, Trish Bendix, quoting Jimmy Fallon, “Trump’s Being Impeached Again, So It Must Be Groundhog Day”, in The New York Times‎[1], archived from the original on 18 February 2021, retrieved 21 February 2026:
      His lawyers just copied and pasted his defense from the last impeachment: Control-F ‘Ukraine,’ replace with ‘riot.’
    • 2024, Jessica McCabe, “Introduction”, in Elysia Liang, editor, How to ADHD, New York: Rodale Books, →ISBN, page viii:
      Sometimes I wish I could just flip to a table of contents, or control-F my channel or my brain.
    • 2025 July 7, Dash Lewis, “Mars is Electric”, in Pitchfork‎[2], archived from the original on 19 July 2025, retrieved 21 February 2026:
      He’s charmingly bewildered by the complexities of life: Control-f a question mark in the lyrics of any of his albums and you’ll get plenty of results.
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