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)