Cookie Cutter Definition

ko͝okē-cŭtər
noun
A piece of metal or plastic shaped in the outline of an animal, geometric figure, etc., used for cutting cookies from dough rolled out in a thin sheet.
Webster's New World
A device for cutting flattened cookie dough into shapes before baking.
American Heritage
adjective
Appearing to be mass-produced; identical in appearance.
Cookie-cutter tract housing in suburbia.
American Heritage
Of or designating something regarded as indistinguishable from, or monotonously similar to, others of its kind.
Webster's New World
Of or pertaining to cookie cutters.
Wiktionary

(idiomatic, often disparaging) Looking or seeming identical; created by some standard or common means; often with the implication that the result is common, boring, or not applicable to all needs.

The subdivision was nothing but row after row of cookie-cutter houses.
I don't think a cookie-cutter solution will work in all cases.
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Noun

Singular:
cookie cutter
Plural:
cookie-cutters

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