pretype

English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ type.

Verb

pretype (third-person singular simple present pretypes, present participle pretyping, simple past and past participle pretyped)

1. (transitive) To type in advance.
   • 2014, David Sklar, Adam Trachtenberg, PHP Cookbook: Solutions & Examples for PHP Programmers:

     However, some web servers have timeouts on how long they'll wait for a request, so it can be useful to pretype the request and then just paste it into Telnet.

   • 1982, CQ, volume 38, number 4, page 30:

     Each depression of the key backs up the display one character, and one can insert a correction before transmission. One can also use all of the "pages" available to pretype text for later transmission […]