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cookie monster

cookie monster noun: a person who eats lots of cookies.

Noun

cookie monster (plural cookie monsters)

  1. (informal) A person who eats lots of cookies.

Proper noun capitalized: Cookie Monster

Cookie Monster

  1. A blue creature from the children's television show Sesame Street who is intensely fond of cookies.
    • In the first four years I worked at QVC I was a cookie monster and ate myself up twenty-two pounds — that's a lot of chocolate chips.1995, Kathy Levine, It's Better to Laugh, page 25
    • The cookie monster program would lock up your terminal and endlessly prompt you to "Give me a cookie (or "I WANT A COOKIE" or some variation), and no matter what you typed, it would always insist it wanted a cookie.2002, Laura Lemay with Rafe Colburn, Sams teach yourself Perl in 21 days, page 20

Forms of cookie monster

pluralcookie monsters

Origin of cookie monster

From the Sesame Street character Cookie Monster.

Questions about cookie monster

What does cookie monster mean?
Cookie monster means a person who eats lots of cookies.
What part of speech is cookie monster?
Cookie monster can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of cookie monster?
The plural of cookie monster is cookie monsters.

Words near cookie monster in the dictionary

  1. cookie hole
  2. cookie holes
  3. cookie jar
  4. cookie jars
  5. cookie licking
  6. cookie monster
  7. cookie pop
  8. cookie pops
  9. cookie press
  10. cookie presses
  11. cookie pusher

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