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Definition of cookie noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

      

    cookie

     noun
    noun
    NAmE//ˈkʊki//
     
    (pl. cookies)
     
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  1. 1a small flat sweet cake for one person, usually baked until crisp chocolate chip cookies a cookie jar see fortune cookie
  2. 2smart/tough cookie (informal) a smart/tough person
  3. 3(computing) a computer file with information in it that is sent to the central server each time a particular person uses a network or the Internet
    4. Idioms
    that's the way the cookie crumbles (informal)
     
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    that is the situation and we cannot change it, so we must accept it
    toss your cookies (informal)
     
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    to vomit
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