cookie-cutter

Definitions

1. 1

   Having a similar appearance or seeming identical

   Having a similar appearance or seeming identical; created by some standard or common means, often with the implication that the result is common, boring, or not applicable to all needs.

   • The subdivision was nothing but row after row of cookie-cutter houses.
   • I don't think a cookie-cutter solution will work in all cases.
   • Nothing that the uniformity-haters can say is beyond the mark; there is an appalling degree of sameness, of cookie-cutter character and outlook, stamped out with neatness, regularity, and despatch.
2. 2

   Alternative form of cookie cutter.

   • For platters of good-looking holiday tea sandwiches, look in your cookie-cutter drawer.
3. 3

   To produce, design, or approach something in a formulaic, mass-produced or unoriginal…

   To produce, design, or approach something in a formulaic, mass-produced or unoriginal manner, often ensuring all the outputs are identical.

   • in arts funding, and possibly cookie-cuttering the program in other Blue Fish locations across the country.
   • I agree but they did not do this out of the goodness of their hearts. They did to make money. They cookie cuttered the bikes and quality be dammed.

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