[syn: cookie, cooky]
3. a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's hard drive when you access the web site;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Cookey \Cook"ey\, Cookie \Cook"ie\, n.
See Cooky.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
cookie
n 1: any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the
British term) [syn: cookie, cooky, biscuit]
2: the cook on a ranch or at a camp [syn: cookie, cooky]
3: a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's
hard drive when you access the web site
The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):
cookie
n.
A handle, transaction ID, or other token of agreement between cooperating
programs. ?I give him a packet, he gives me back a cookie.? The claim check
you get from a dry-cleaning shop is a perfect mundane example of a cookie;
the only thing it's useful for is to relate a later transaction to this one
(so you get the same clothes back). Syn. magic cookie; see also fortune
cookie. Now mainstream in the specific sense of web-browser cookies.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
cookie
cooky
1. HTTP cookie.
2. A handle, transaction ID, or other token of
agreement between cooperating programs. "I give him a packet,
he gives me back a cookie".
The ticket you get from a dry-cleaning shop is an example of a
cookie; the only thing it's useful for is to relate a later
transaction to this one (so you get the same clothes back).
Compare magic cookie; see also fortune cookie.
3. A cracker term for the password list
on a multi-user computer.
4. An adjective describing a computer that just
became toast.
(1997-04-14)