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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>cursor dipped in X</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../C.html" title="C"/><link rel="previous" href="cup-holder.html" title="cup holder"/><link rel="next" href="cuspy.html" title="cuspy"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">cursor dipped in X</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="cup-holder.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">C</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="cuspy.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="cursor-dipped-in-X"/><dt xmlns="" id="cursor-dipped-in-X"><b>cursor dipped in X</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> There are a couple of metaphors in English of the form ‘pen
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dipped in X’ (perhaps the most common values of X are
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‘acid’, ‘bile’, and ‘vitriol’). These
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map over neatly to this hackish usage (the cursor being what moves, leaving
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letters behind, when one is composing on-line). “<span class="quote">Talk about a
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<a href="../N/nastygram.html"><i class="glossterm">nastygram</i></a>! He must've had his cursor dipped in acid
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when he wrote that one!</span>”</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="cup-holder.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../C.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="cuspy.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">cup holder </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> cuspy</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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