cookie
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cookie/ˈkʊki/
▶noun (pl. cookies)
- 1 N. Amer. a sweet biscuit.
- 2 informal a person of a specified kind: she's a tough cookie.
- 3 Scottish a plain bun.
- 4 Computing a packet of data sent by an Internet server to a browser and used to identify the user or track their access to the server.
– phrases
that's the way the cookie crumbles informal, chiefly N. Amer. that's the situation, and it must be accepted, however undesirable.
that's the way the cookie crumbles informal, chiefly N. Amer. that's the situation, and it must be accepted, however undesirable.
– origin C18: from Du. koekje ‘little cake’, dimin. of koek.
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