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cookie bear n. obs. Original term, pre-Sesame-Street, for what is now universally called a cookie monster.
A correspondent observes "In those days, hackers were actually getting their yuck...
cookie file n. A collection of fortune cookies in a format that facilitates retrieval by a fortune program.
There are several different cookie files in public distribution, and site admi...
cookie jar n. An area of memory set aside for storing cookies.
Most commonly heard in the Atari ST community...
cookie monster n.
copious free time n. [Apple; orig. fr. the intro to Tom Lehrer's song "It Makes A Fellow Proud To Be A Soldier"] 1.
[used ironically to indicate the speaker's lack of the quantity in que...
copper n. Conventional electron-carrying network cable with a core conductor of copper -- or aluminum!
Opposed to light pipe or, say, a short-range m...
copy protection n. A class of methods for preventing incompetent pirates from stealing software and legitimate customers from using it.
Considered silly....
copybroke /kop'ee-brohk/ adj. 1. [play on `copyright'] Used to describe an instance of a copy-protected program that has been `broken'
hat is, a copy with the copy-protection scheme disa...
copycenter n. [play on `copyright' and `copyleft'] 1.
The copyright notice carried by the various flavors of freeware BSD....
copyleft /kop'ee-left/ n. [play on `copyright'] 1.

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