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cookie

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cook⋅ie

  [kook-ee]
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–noun
1. a small cake made from stiff, sweet dough rolled and sliced or dropped by spoonfuls on a large, flat pan (cookie sheet) and baked.
2. Informal. dear; sweetheart (a term of address, usually connoting affection).
3. Slang.
a. a person: a smart cookie; a tough cookie.
b. an alluring young woman.
4. Computers. a message, or segment of data, containing information about a user, sent by a Web server to a browser and sent back to the server each time the browser requests a Web page.
5. South Atlantic States (chiefly North Carolina). a doughnut.
6. Scot. a bun.
—Idiom
7. toss or spill one's cookies, Slang. to vomit.
Also, cooky.

Origin:
1695–1705, < D koekie, dial. var. of koekje, equiv. to koek cake + -je dim. suffix
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cook·ie also cook·y   (kŏŏk'ē)   
n.   pl. cook·ies

  1. A small, usually flat and crisp cake made from sweetened dough.

  2. Slang A person, usually of a specified kind: a lawyer who was a tough cookie.

  3. Computer Science A collection of information, usually including a username and the current date and time, stored on the local computer of a person using the World Wide Web, used chiefly by websites to identify users who have previously registered or visited the site.


[Dutch koekje, diminutive of koek, cake, from Middle Dutch koeke.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Science Dictionary
cookie   (kk'ē)  Pronunciation Key 
A collection of information, usually including a username and the current date and time, stored on the local computer of a person using the World Wide Web, used chiefly by websites to identify users who have previously registered or visited the site. Cookies are used to relate one computer transaction to a later one.
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Computing Dictionary

cookie
1. HTTP cookie.
2. A handle, transaction ID, or other token of agreement between cooperating programs. "I give him a packet, he gives me back a cookie".
The ticket you get from a dry-cleaning shop is a perfect mundane example of a cookie; the only thing it's useful for is to relate a later transaction to this one (so you get the same clothes back).
Compare magic cookie; see also fortune cookie.
3. A cracker term for the password list on a multi-user computer.
4. An adjective describing a computer that just became toast.
(1997-04-14)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Idioms & Phrases

cookie

see hand in the till (cookie jar); that's how the ball bounces (cookie crumbles); toss one's cookies.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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