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cursorjacking

noun

Etymology

Blend of cursor + hijacking; compare clickjacking.

  1. derived from jaque
  2. derived from jacke
  3. inherited from jakke
  4. suffixed as jacker — “jack + er”
  5. compounded as hijack — “highway + jacker”
  6. suffixed as hijacking — “hijack + ing”
  7. compounded as cursorjacking — “cursor + hijacking”

Definitions

  1. The malicious practice of tricking a user into clicking a visual element they did not…

    The malicious practice of tricking a user into clicking a visual element they did not intend to click, by manipulating the cursor's apparent location.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cursorjacking. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA