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De - Pt| English Dictionary: fortune cookie | by the DICT Development Group |
| 3 results for fortune cookie | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
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fortune cookie n. [WAITS, via Unix; common] A random quote, item of trivia, joke, or maxim printed to the user's tty at login time or (less commonly) at logout time. Items from this lexicon have often been used as fortune cookies. See {cookie file}. | |
| From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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fortune cookie ({WAITS}, via the {Unix} "fortune" program) A quotation, item of trivia, joke, or maxim selected at random from a collection (the "{cookie file}") and printed to the user's tty at login time or (less commonly) at logout time. There was a fortune program on {TOPS-20}. [First program?] [{Jargon File}] (1995-02-14) | |
