magic cookies

A form of magic cookie — 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.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of magic cookie
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