cookie cutter
a device, usually of metal, for cutting shaped forms, as circles or stars, for cookies from dough that has been rolled flat.
Origin of cookie cutter
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Other definitions for cookie-cutter (2 of 2)
having the same configuration or look as many others of a given kind; identical: rows of cookie-cutter houses.
lacking individuality; stereotyped or formulaic: a novel filled with cookie-cutter characters.
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How to use cookie cutter in a sentence
“A lot of times we want this cookie cutter thing where we can say foam rollers work for everyone but I think it’s hard to people, including researchers, to grasp that there isn’t one thing that works for everyone,” says Dabbs.
Keen-eyed solvers noted that there was no restriction on the convexity of the cookie cutter.
How High Can You Count With Menorah Math? | Zach Wissner-Gross | December 11, 2020 | FiveThirtyEightI love them because there is no rolling, no chilling, no cookie cutters.
A one-bowl sheet-pan cookie so easy a child taught me how to make it | Ann Maloney | December 3, 2020 | Washington PostUsing a small cookie cutter or pie stamp, cut as many cutouts from the dough as you can.
Decorate this caramel apple pie with festive, buttery pastry cutouts | Erin Jeanne McDowell | November 12, 2020 | Washington PostThe problem is, “Yoga therapeutics has become very cookie cutter,” says Cruikshank.
Eric Cantor was a noxious, cookie-cutter, U.S. Chamber, GOP hypocrite.
Now Let’s Replace All the Other Big-Spending Eric Cantors | Nick Gillespie | June 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThere is no cookie-cutter plan for social media; you have to find what appeals most to your specific audience.
Of course, Betty and Don are not the perfect cookie cutter humans they so desperately wish to be seen as.
Every Woman Don Draper’s Hooked Up With on ‘Mad Men’ | Amy Zimmerman | April 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFor CinemaSins, the cookie cutter approach often takes much of the chaff, but leaves behind the wheat.
The Witty Genius of YouTube’s CinemaSins: Everything Wrong with Your Favorite Movie | Rich Goldstein | April 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTCut with a cookie cutter a round of bread from a thick slice, then a ring with a doughnut cutter.
Stevenson Memorial Cook Book | VariousRoll very thin, cut with cookie cutter, lay on Criscoed tins, bake in moderately hot oven five minutes.
The Story of Crisco | Marion Harris NeilCut with a large cookie cutter and then bake in a hot oven for fifteen minutes.
Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book | Mary A. WilsonRoll out ¼-inch thick on floured board; cut with cookie cutter.
The New Dr. Price Cookbook | AnonymousRoll out thin on slightly floured board and cut with cookie cutter.
New Royal Cook Book | Anonymous
British Dictionary definitions for cookie-cutter
a shape with a sharp edge for cutting individual biscuits from a sheet of dough
resembling many others of the same kind: a row of cookie-cutter houses
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