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cookie

Pronunciation: /ˈkʊki/
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Definition of cookie

noun (plural cookies)

  • 1North American a sweet biscuit.
  • 2 [with adjective] informal a person of a specified kind:she’s a tough cookie
  • 3Scottish a plain bun.
  • 4 Computing a packet of data sent by an Internet server to a browser, which is returned by the browser each time it subsequently accesses the same server, used to identify the user or track their access to the server.

Phrases

that's the way the cookie crumbles

informal, chiefly North American that’s the way the situation is, and it must be accepted, however undesirable: ‘It’s so unfair.’ ‘That’s the way the cookie crumbles.’

Origin:

early 18th century: from Dutch koekje 'little cake', diminutive of koek

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