cursor dipped in X

cursor dipped in X

(jargon)The metaphorical source of the electronic equivalentof a poisoned-pen letter. Derived from English metaphors ofthe form "pen dipped in X" (where X = e.g. "acid", "bile","vitriol"). These map over neatly to this hackish usage (thecursor being what moves, leaving letters behind, when one iscomposing on-line).

"Talk about a nastygram! He must've had his cursor dippedin acid when he wrote that one!"