cookie

1. <World-Wide Web> HTTP cookie.

2. <protocol> 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 a perfect mundane 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. <security, jargon> A cracker term for the password list on a multi-user computer.

4. <jargon> An adjective describing a computer that just became toast.

Nearby terms:
cooccurrence matrix « cookbook « cooked mode « cookie » cookie bear » cookie file » cookie jar