cookie
noun
- ☆ a small, sweet cake, variously shaped, filled, etc., but usually flat and either crisp or chewy
- Scot. a bun
- ☆ Slang
- a person, esp. one qualified as tough, smart, shrewd, etc.
- an attractive young woman
- ☆ Comput. a small file placed automatically on a user's hard disk, as by a website or online service, for the purpose of storing information about and recognizing the user
See cookie in American Heritage Dictionary 4
also cook·y (ko͝okˈē)
noun pl. cook·ies - A small, usually flat and crisp cake made from sweetened dough.
- Slang A person, usually of a specified kind: a lawyer who was a tough cookie.
- 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.
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