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Drug slang A regional term for crack
Informatics A piece of information generated by a Web server and stored in the user's computer, ready for future access
Vox populi—US Any of various small, usually flat sweet cakes; biscuit in the UK


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The word cookie is derived from the Dutch word koekje, which means "small cake", and likely refers to the cooking of dollops of dough in an oven to test its temperature, a practice employed before the advent of oven thermometers.
 
 
 
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