English
cookie-cutter
Noun

cookie-cutter

  1. (mostly, attributive) Alternative form of cookie cutter#English|cookie cutter
    • 1916, ad in The Ladies' Home Journal, volume 33, page 87:
      Let Us Send You a Trial Package
      Ten cents (stamps or coin) will bring you a One-Cake package, enough for a nice “company cake," and we will include a 10c Dromedary Cookie-Cutter and a Cook Book of Choice Cocoanut[sic] Recipes.
      The Hills Brothers Co. Dept. B, 375 Washington Street New York
    • 2013, Rom Harre, Great Scientific Experiments: Twenty Experiments that Changed our View of the World (Courier Corporation, ISBN 9780486143606):
      In the passive condition the hand was held palm upwards and the cookie-cutters were pressed on to the sensitive skin of the palm. In the active condition it was the finger tips which were mainly in contact with the cookie-cutter.
Adjective

cookie-cutter

  1. (figuratively, often, pejorative) Looking or seeming identical; created by some standard or common means, often with the implication that the result is common, boring, or not applicable to all needs.
    The subdivision was nothing but row after row of cookie-cutter houses.
    I don't think a cookie-cutter solution will work in all cases.
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