page up

See also: Page Up

English

Etymology

From the Page Up key on a keyboard that performs this function.

Verb

page up (third-person singular simple present pages up, present participle paging up, simple past and past participle paged up)

  1. (computing) To scroll up to the previous page of content.
    When I paged up or down, the text would sometimes get mangled and duplicated.

Synonyms
  • scroll up
  • scroll down (Emacs and old IBM system)
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