1. < 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 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).
Another example is an HTTP cookie .
Compare magic cookie ; see also fortune cookie .
2. A cracker term for the password list on a multi-user computer.
3. An adjective describing a computer that just became toast .
(1997-04-14)