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Cookie Monster

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  1. A blue creature from the children's television show Sesame Street who is intensely fond…

    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.
    • 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.
    • A gene involved in cell division which is named because it makes the cells look like a `whole bunch of cookie monster eyes'.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Cookie Monster. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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