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cookie
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n. A handle, transaction ID, or other token of agreement between cooperating
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programs. I give him a packet, he gives me back a cookie. The claim check
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you get from a dry-cleaning shop is a perfect mundane example of a cookie;
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the only thing it's useful for is to relate a later transaction to this one
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(so you get the same clothes back). Syn. magic cookie ; see also fortune
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cookie. Now mainstream in the specific sense of web-browser cookies.
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