breadcrumbs
See also: bread crumbs
English
Sense 2. A trail of hyperlinks, displayed as a guide to make navigating easier.
Alternative forms
- bread crumbs
Etymology
Computing sense: a reference to the German fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, where Hansel leaves a trail of breadcrumbs to find the way back home when venturing into the woods.
Noun
breadcrumbs
- plural of breadcrumb
- (Internet, graphical user interface) A trail of hyperlinks that lead consecutively to the current page, displayed in the page as a guide and a means of navigating easily to any of the pages in the trail.
Translations
trail of hyperlinks
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Verb
breadcrumbs
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of breadcrumb