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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. security, jargon A cracker term for the password list
on a multi-user computer.
3. jargon An adjective describing a computer that just
became toast.
(1997-04-14)