Cookie file
operating system
A collection of fortune cookies in a format that facilitates retrieval by a fortune program. There are many cookie files in public distribution, and site admins often assemble their own from various sources.
[Jargon File]
(1997-01-07)
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- Cookie-jar
noun 1. a jar or other container for storing cookies. 2. such a container used for storing money. Idioms 3. have one’s hand in the cookie jar, Informal. to take or attempt to take advantage of one’s position by demanding or accepting favors or bribes: They suspected the mayor’s assistant had his hand in the […]
- Cookie monster
noun phrase Someone who is voracious and destructive: The policy got eaten up by a Cookie Monster named Richard Darman, director of OMB [1970s+; fr a televison hand-puppet character so named who noisily devours huge amounts of cookies] recreation (From the children’s TV program “Sesame Street”) Any of a family of early (1970s) hacks reported […]
- Cookie-press
noun 1. a device, operating in a manner similar to that of a syringe, in which dough is inserted in a chamber and extruded, by means of a plunger, through one of a number of interchangeable dies to form a shaped cylinder that is sliced into individual cookies.
- Cookie-pusher
noun
- Cookies
[koo k-ee] /ˈkʊk i/ 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. 4. Computers. a message, or segment of data, containing information about a […]