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Sense 1
- noun
- A1
A small flat sweet cake baked until it is firm, often with pieces of chocolate or nuts in it.
The whole kitchen smelled of warm cookies when we came home.
She dipped a cookie in her tea and half of it broke off.
He hid the last cookie at the back of the cupboard.
We baked two trays of cookies for the school concert.
Common collocations: chocolate chip cookie · bake cookies · a batch of cookies · a cookie jar · home-made cookies
Part of: Sweets, Bread and grains
Sense 2 · less common
- noun
- B1
A small piece of computer information that a website leaves on your device so it can remember you.
The site asks you to accept cookies before you can read anything.
Try deleting the cookies if the page keeps loading forever.
Cookies remember what you left in your shopping basket.
Common collocations: accept cookies · delete cookies · block cookies · a cookie banner · third-party cookies
Part of: Phone and internet
Forms
- plural
- cookies