cookie
1.
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)