cookie

Definition

  • noun: a sweet baked food that is usually small, flat, and round and is made from flour and sugar
  • noun: a small flat or slightly raised cake
  • often used before another noun
  • synonyms: bickie, qualifier, l

Examples

  • Opponents accused the candidate of taking a 'cookie-cutter' approach to the problem. [=of not coming up with new ideas to deal with the problem]

  • I'm disappointed that I didn't get the job but 'that's the way the cookie crumbles'. [='that's how it goes']

  • Don't worry about her—she's a 'tough cookie'.

Movie quotes

  • (..) You rack up debt, the type of debt that'd make a white man blush. Maybe you get into a little trouble. Maybe you get your hand caught in the corporate cookie jar. Maybe you leave and run off to the desert. Maybe with your favorite lap dancer in tow. Maybe you disappear into a world (..)
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