Cookie
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.
