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cookie: n. A handle, transaction ID, or other token of agreement between
cooperating programs. “I give him a packet, he gives me back a
cookie.” The claim check 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).
Syn. magic cookie; see also
fortune cookie. Now mainstream in the specific sense of web-browser
cookies.
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