cookie
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1. HTTP cookie.
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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.
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4. An adjective describing a computer that just became toast.
Last updated: 1997-04-14
Nearby terms:
cookbook ♦ cooked mode ♦ cookie ♦ cookie bear ♦ cookie file ♦ cookie jar
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