cookie

Noun

Synonyms: cooky biscuit

WordNet 3.0

Noun (3)

any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term)Synonyms: cooky biscuit
the cook on a ranch or at a campSynonyms: cooky
a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's hard drive when you access the web site

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Cookey \Cook"ey\, Cookie \Cook"ie\, n. See Cooky. [1913 Webster]

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

1.<web> HTTP cookie.

2.<protocol> 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.<security, jargon> A cracker term for the password list on a multi-user computer.

4.<jargon> An adjective describing a computer that just became toast.

(1997-04-14)

The Jargon File

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.