noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
chocolate chip cookie
Christmas cookie
cookie cutter
cookie cutter
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the cookie cutter approach of the urban renewal programme
cookie sheet
fortune cookie
tough cookie/customer informal (= someone who is very determined to do what they want and not what other people want )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
chocolate
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For dessert, cover lime sherbet with a blanket of chocolate chips or chocolate sandwich cookie chunks.
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Valerie Hermreck brings a batch of warm-from-the-oven chocolate chip cookies to her husband and children.
smart
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Unless Newman is a smart cookie .
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The Gingerbread Man Summary A fox ate a smart cookie .
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Monroe herself, of course, was a smart cookie , but she knew enough to play dumb.
tough
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We're tough cookies here, and so are you.
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Now, women on television are depicted as tough cookies who need a man like a fish needs a trouser press.
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Being a dedicated tough cookie , he has delivered the goods in impressive manner.
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In general, the provincial circuit is a far tougher cookie than its metropolitan counterpart.
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Mr Kinnock is clearly a tough cookie .
■ NOUN
chip
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I buy my six-pack and some chocolate chip cookies .
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Valerie Hermreck brings a batch of warm-from-the-oven chocolate chip cookies to her husband and children.
cutter
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My knees were tapped with hammers, cookie cutters were rolled over my skin, flashlights were shone in my eyes.
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With a 2-to 3-inch-round cookie cutter or drinking glass, cut circles, close together, out of the dough.
fortune
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The jovial anchorman on the local news reaches into the pocket of his blazer and extracts a fortune cookie .
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Have that cooking while you prepare and organize the components for the speedy stir-fry. Fortune cookies are fun for dessert.
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In plates around the room were fortune cookies , srnall Buddhas and smouldering joss sticks.
jar
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As hellfire-spiced love muffins go this beauty rates five big ones in any self-respecting cookie jar .
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And never take more than one cookie when offered the cookie jar .
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We talk about how much money is left in the cookie jar .
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She put the Gingerbread Man in the cookie jar , where his comrades welcomed him.
sheet
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Set pie on cookie sheet and bake at 425 degrees 10 minutes.
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When you covered the cookie sheet I with the towel, the sound was no longer reflected.
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Place on well-greased cookie sheet and flatten with spatula.
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Drop on to greased cookie sheets and bake about 10 minutes.
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Spray cookie sheet with non-stick cooking spray.
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Bake on an ungreased cookie sheet for 12 to 15 minutes.
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Drop by rounded teaspoons on to a greased non-stick cookie sheet .
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Put a cookie sheet on the oven rack during preheating.
■ VERB
bake
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So what are they baking into these cookies of theirs?
buy
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The second-grader walked right up to the president and asked him to buy Girl Scout cookies .
eat
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Death ate six cookies in a flash.
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Whatever the reason, people who believe that eating quantities of fat-free cookies is a smart nutrition strategy are deluding themselves.
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At Nabisco, no one minds that people are eating boxes of their cookies .
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The Gingerbread Man Summary A fox ate a smart cookie .
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I ate Twinkies, cookies , you name it.
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We sit at her kitchen table and eat cookies from a box.
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She looked a bit bedraggled as she sat in the dining room, mechanically eating butter cookies from a blue glass plate.
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Ellen watched as Jeanne sat there, eating one cookie after another.
get
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And we've got other cookies in the basket that we're not even aware of yet!
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And could you get some cookies ?
make
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This recipe is suitable for making large cookies , about 4 inches in diameter, but they may be made smaller.
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Direct each pair to make the cookie sheet stand up on the far edge of the desk.
want
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She also wants a mincemeat cookie recipe which she saw in a cookbook some 30 years ago.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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molasses cookies
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Allow to cool slightly before transferring the cookies to a wire rack.
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By examining the cookie , Web sites can take note of what other sites you have visited.
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Christmas and commercialism, like milk and cookies, have always gone together.
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I buy my six-pack and some chocolate chip cookies.
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In general, the provincial circuit is a far tougher cookie than its metropolitan counterpart.
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The final cookie has been bought.