with objectTo press and release (a button on a mouse); to initiate (a program function) or select (an item) in this way, having first positioned the mouse pointer on the appropriate part of the screen.
Origin
1980s; earliest use found in PC Magazine.
Definition of mouse-click in US English:
mouse-click
verb
with objectTo press and release (a button on a mouse); to initiate (a program function) or select (an item) in this way, having first positioned the mouse pointer on the appropriate part of the screen.