fortune cookie
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editfortune cookie (plural fortune cookies)
- A type of hollow snack, common in westernized Chinese cuisine: a crisp sugary wafer containing a message on a narrow strip of paper, generally with a wise or vaguely prophetic message or random numbers usable in a lottery printed on the paper.
- 2006, “Courtesy Laughs”, in It's Never Been Like That, performed by Phoenix:
- I read my future in a fortune cookie / Without any safety procedure in mind
- (computing) A quote-of-the-day feature (especially on *nix systems.)
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