cookie

Less common meanings

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   send to browserverbtransitive

   To send a cookie to a user, browser, or computer, usually to store data for later retrieval.

   The platform cookies each new user on their first visit.

   Advertisers cookie browsers to follow people across different sites.

   Note

   The verb of web measurement, made from the browser cookie. Its object is often the person rather than the machine: Ralph Kimball and Richard Merz write of "cookieing visitors," and Jim Sterne says that at Oracle "they cookie you before and after you register." The forms keep the noun's spelling whole: cookies, cookieing, cookied. Source

   Checked 31 Oct 2026 · 3 facts

   • The computing verb uses the browser-cookie noun to mean sending such a cookie. en.wiktionary.org
   • Ralph Kimball and Richard Merz use the phrase cookieing visitors in The Data Webhouse Toolkit. en.wiktionary.org
   • Jim Sterne's Web Metrics contains the quoted statement about Oracle. en.wiktionary.org
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   stomach contentsnouncolloquialcountableplural

   The food one has eaten, especially the contents of one's stomach.

   The roller coaster nearly made her lose her cookies.

   After three rides on the roller coaster, he tossed his cookies behind the ticket booth.

   UsageMostly in lose your cookies or toss your cookies, meaning to throw up.

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   chef (nickname)noundated

   An affectionate, dated nickname for a cook, especially a ship's or camp cook.

   The ranch hands crowded around the chuck wagon, where Cookie already had a pot of coffee going.

   More than a little apprehensive myself, I went out to the kitchen. Cookie, deep in a murder story, rocked peacefully beside the glowing range.

   1954, Blackwood's Magazine, volumes 275-276

   UsageUsed like a name, with a capital and often no article: Cookie had the coffee on.

   Similarcook

   Note

   A separate word that happens to share the spelling. It is cook plus the familiar -ie, unrelated to the Dutch "little cake" behind the baked treat. It works like a name, often standing without an article, as in Blackwood's Magazine of 1954: "Cookie, deep in a murder story, rocked peacefully …" Roald Dahl's Matilda (1988) still has the Trunchbull say "cookie here." Source

   Checked 31 Oct 2026 · 7 facts

   • The nickname has a separate origin, formed from cook and -ie. en.wiktionary.org
   • The baked-treat word comes from a Dutch diminutive meaning little cake and is unrelated to cook. en.wiktionary.org
   • The Dutch source means little cake. en.wikipedia.org
   • Blackwood's Magazine contains the cited example in 1954. en.wiktionary.org
   • The sentence continues: "Cookie, deep in a murder story, rocked peacefully beside the glowing range." The shortened quotation needs an ellipsis. en.wiktionary.org
   • Roald Dahl's Matilda was first published in 1988. anulib.anu.edu.au
   • The Trunchbull says cookie here in Matilda. beta.alruya.edu.kw
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   female genitalsnounslangvulgarcountable

   Vulgar slang for the vulva, the external female genitalia.

   The rapper's lyrics about her cookie sparked complaints from listeners.

   The comedian's set was mostly crude jokes about his girlfriend's cookie, and half the audience walked out.

   Note

   Coarse slang that sounds playful, which is part of its trick. It turns up in a child's joke recorded by Gershon Legman from a 1953 informant, and in Nicki Minaj's "Anaconda" (2014). Source

   Checked 2 Nov 2026 · 3 facts

   • Gershon Legman recorded a joke involving a little girl and 'cookie' in the genital sense, attributed to a 1953 informant. en.wiktionary.org
   • 'Cookie' occurs in Nicki Minaj's 'Anaconda', specifically its clean version. en.wiktionary.org
   • Nicki Minaj's 'Anaconda' was released in 2014. en.wikipedia.org
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   pretty womannoundatedcountable

   Dated slang for an attractive young woman.

   He showed up to the party with a real cookie on his arm.

   In the old black-and-white movie, a sailor grins and calls her a cute little cookie.

   Similardoll, dish, babe

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    crack cocainenounslangcountable

    A piece of crack cocaine larger than a single rock, often formed into a round, cookie-shaped lump.

    The dealer broke a cookie into smaller rocks for individual sale.

    Detectives said each cookie of crack would be broken into dozens of smaller rocks for sale.

    Note

    Drug-trade slang with a measure built in. A cookie is bigger than a rock, so the two words name sizes of the same product rather than different substances. The name comes from the shape, a flattish round lump. The smaller rocks are the units, and the cookie is the larger mass they can be broken from. Source

    Checked 31 Oct 2026 · 3 facts

    • Cookie and rock refer to different sizes of crack cocaine. en.wiktionary.org
    • The name refers to the lump's resemblance to a cookie. cases.justia.com
    • Smaller rocks can be broken from the larger cookie for individual sale and consumption. socialwork.utexas.edu
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    skid marknoundialectalNorthern UScountable

    A circular skid mark or peel-out left on the road by spinning a vehicle's tires; a doughnut.

    The driver stomped the gas and carved a perfect cookie into the asphalt.

    Bored teenagers spent the night doing cookies in the empty parking lot.

    UsageUsually with do: doing cookies in a parking lot.

    Similardoughnut

    Note

    A Northern US name for the circle a spinning car burns into pavement. Its synonym doughnut draws the same picture from a different pastry. Source

    Checked 2 Nov 2026 · 3 facts

    • The vehicle-related expression is used in the Northern United States. en.wikipedia.org
    • The maneuver produces circular skid marks on pavement. en.wikipedia.org
    • Doughnut describes the same circular skid mark through a pastry-shaped comparison. en.wiktionary.org
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    soft bunnoundialectalScotlandcountable

    A small, soft, round bread roll or bun.

    He split a cookie and filled it with butter and jam.

    He bought a soft cookie at the Glasgow bakery and filled it with ham and cheese for lunch.

    Similarroll, bun

    Note

    In Scotland the word names something soft and bready, a bun rather than the flat, crisp treat. Both uses may come from the same Dutch "little cake." When a sentence has someone split, butter or fill the cookie, the reader can tell which kind is meant. Source

    Checked 31 Oct 2026 · 2 facts

    • In Scotland, cookie can mean a bun. en.wiktionary.org
    • The American baked-treat sense derives from Dutch meaning 'little cake'. en.wikipedia.org
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    nounslang

    Vulgar slang for the anus, specifically a man's.
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    nounslang

    In filmmaking, a cut-out board placed before a light source to project patterned shadows onto a scene; a cucoloris.