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cookiecutter

cookiecutter is the alternative form of cookie cutter.

cookiecutter is the ellipsis of cookiecutter shark.

Meaning of cookie cutter

Noun

cookie cutter (plural cookie cutters)

  1. A device used to cut flattened dough into shapes before baking.
    Synonyms:
    biscuit cutter

Meaning of cookiecutter shark

Noun

cookiecutter shark (plural cookiecutter sharks)

  1. A small shark, Isistius brasiliensis, that tears circular chunks of flesh from its prey.
    • The polka dots are scars left by the cookiecutter shark, a thalassophobia-inducing creature with jaws designed to remove round plugs of flesh.2021 March 30, J. B. MacKinnon, “An Entire Group of Whales Has Somehow Escaped Human Attention”, in The Atlantic
    Synonyms:
    cookiecutter

Forms of cookiecutter

pluralcookiecutters

Phrases with cookiecutter

Questions about cookiecutter

What is cookiecutter the alternative form of?
Cookiecutter is the alternative form of cookie cutter.

Words near cookiecutter in the dictionary

  1. cookie-jar reserves
  2. cookie-pop
  3. cookie-pops
  4. cookie-shine
  5. cookie-shines
  6. cookiecutter
  7. cookiecutter shark
  8. cookiecutter sharks
  9. cookiecutters
  10. cookied
  11. cookieholic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cookiecutter (page history and authors); cookie cutter (page history and authors); cookiecutter shark (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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