/pay' stee/ An adhesive label designed to be attached to a key on a keyboard to indicate some non-standard character which can be accessed through that key. Pasties are likely to be used in APL environments, where almost every key is associated with a special character. A pastie on the R key, for example, might remind the user that it is used to generate the rho character. The term properly refers to nipple-concealing devices formerly worn by strippers in concession to indecent-exposure laws compareef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=tits on a keyboard">tits on a keyboard. [ef="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Jargon File">Jargon File]
