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Cookie Monster en · PROPN

Meanings

  1. A blue creature from the children's television show Sesame Street who is intensely fond of cookies.
    • A gene involved in cell division which is named because it makes the cells look like a `whole bunch of cookie monster eyes'. 2008, Paul W. May, Molecules with Silly Or Unusual Names, page 150:
    • 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. 2002, Laura Lemay with Rafe Colburn, Sams teach yourself Perl in 21 days, page 20:
    • 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. 1995, Kathy Levine, It's Better to Laugh, page 25:
    • In his Cookie Monster voice, he screamed, "Bing-go! Jack-pot! Koo-key!" 2009, Denise Dietz, Throw Darts at a Cheesecake, page 182:

Translations (10)

es Comegalletas (Sesame Street character) · pt Come-Come (Sesame Street character) · fr Macaron le glouton (Sesame Street character) · ru Ко́ржик (Sesame Street character) · de Krümelmonster (Sesame Street character) · he עוגיפלצת (Sesame Street character) · nl Koekiemonster (Sesame Street character) · es Monstruo de las Galletas (Sesame Street character) · fi Keksimonsteri (Sesame Street character) · sv kakmonstret def sing (Sesame Street character)