hunt and peck

[Paul Frank]

The hunt-and-peck, or search-and-peck, typing technique used by
policemen the world over is not in the OED. "Hunt and peck" yields
375,000 raw hits; "search and peck" 152,000. Many dictionaries include
this term.


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