magic cookie
The English word “magic cookie” has 1 meaning listed here.
noun
- A token or short packet of data passed between communicating programs, used to identify a particular event or transaction; the data is typically not meaningful to the recipient program and not usually interpreted until the recipient passes the data back to the sender or another program at a later time.
Etymology
From magic + cookie. First attested in c. 1979.
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