Cookie (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun, plural cook·ies
  1. a small, usually round and flat cake, the size of an individual portion, made from stiff, sweetened dough, and baked.
  2. dear; sweetheart (a term of address, usually connoting affection).
  3. Slang.
    • a person, usually of a specified character or type: a smart cookie; a tough cookie.
    • an alluring young woman.
  4. a file or segment of data that identifies a unique user over time and across interactions with a website, sent by the web server through a browser, stored on a user’s hard drive, and sent back to the server each time the browser requests a web page: Your browser will run more efficiently after you clear the cache and cookies.
  5. a doughnut.
  6. a bun.
verb (used with object), cook·ied,cook·ie·ing or cook·y·ing.
  1. to assign a cookie or cookies to (a website user): I'm not really comfortable being cookied all the time.
Idioms
  1. to vomit.
noun plural -ies
  1. a small flat dry sweet or plain cake of many varieties, baked from a dough
  2. a Scot word for bun
  3. a person
  4. a piece of data downloaded to a computer by a website, containing details of the preferences of that computer's user which identify the user when revisiting that website
  5. matters are inevitably or unalterably so
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