cookie-cutter
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cookie-cutter
adjective more cookie-cutter · most cookie-cutter
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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.
Similar: cookie-cuttered, cookie-cutterish
noun cookie-cutters
- Alternative form of cookie cutter Let Us Send You a Trial Package Ten cents (stamps or coin) will bring you a One-Cake package, enough for a nice “company cake," and we will include a 10c Dromedary Cookie-Cutter and a Cook Book of Choice Cocoanut Recipes. The Hills Brothers Co. Dept. B, 375 Washington Street New York
verb cookie-cutters · cookie-cuttering · cookie-cuttered
- To produce, design, or approach something in a formulaic, mass-produced or unoriginal manner, often ensuring all the outputs are identical. Ever since USA Today arrived with its bar graphs, its color-coded weather maps (red means hot, boys and girls!), its stick-figure journalism, its pages cookie-cuttered by brights and factoids and its expert trivializing of everything from wars to nutrition, the craft of newspapering meant nothing mo
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verb looking or seeming identical
| Deutsch | nullachtfünfzehn, schablonenhaft, schablonenartig, gleichförmig |
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| Русский | шаблонный šablonnyj |
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