cookie cutter

cookie cutter

1. noun A tool used to cut dough into shapes for cookies. I used a heart-shaped cookie cutter for these Valentine's cookies—aren't they adorable?
2. adjective Identical to other things. In this usage, the phrase is typically hyphenated. I want a unique house, not one of those cookie-cutter boxes that looks like every other one on the block.
See also: cookie, cutter
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • cutter
  • (Is) this taken?
  • (Is) that everything?
  • 10-4
  • a (damn) sight too (something)
  • (one's) best foot forward
  • (one's) jollies
  • take (one's) hands off (something or someone)
  • take hands off
  • (old) stamping ground
References in periodicals archive
Cookie Cutters fits a simple niche and fulfills a basic need of providing children with a good haircut that is on trend, he says.
Neal Courtney: a cut above the rest
CUTLINE: (1) Barbara Paisner of Clinton with Halloween black cat cookie cutters. She is a member of the national Cookie Cutter Collectors Club.
Cookie cutter classics; Clinton woman shares passion in national collectors club
Make an imprint in the center of each cookie by lightly pressing a star-shape cookie cutter into dough, making sure not to cut all the way through.
Simple to spectacular: make beautiful cookies, even if you don't have time to fuss
Jeffrey thought of using the E cookie cutter to form a letter, then cutting the letter into its separate segments before seeing if it was possible to fit the gelatin segments of the E into the X cookie cutter.
Graphing from A to Z
Cut out stars with the cookie cutter and watch them twinkle!
Stars
A beam of xenon ions then cuts through the chip's photoresist-free parts like a cookie cutter, producing the 2 million multilayered microcylinders.
Growing and carving micro-laser forests
So grab your Mississippi cookie cutter, some sugar, butter, flour, or some cardstock paper and scissors, and show some love and creativity with our great state in mind!
MISSISSIPPI love: The Mississippi-shaped cookie cutter is not just for cookies!
will donate 10% of its sales of patriotic cookie cutters and cookie cutter sets to PVA.
Cookies for PVA
Use the large cookie cutter to cut 24-30 hearts from the dough.
cooking with the kids
Virginia Lowell's ONE DEAD COOKIE: A COOKIE CUTTER SHOP MYSTERY (9780425260692, $7.99) provides the fourth book in the Cookie Cutter Shop mystery series, this revolving around a batch of special cookies and a murder.
Berkeley Prime Crime
New England Cookie Cutter Collectors will hold a regional meeting Oct.
Cookie Cutter lovers set to meet
Secondly, it means flexibility, where each loan is evaluated on its own merit, rather than on a 'cookie cutter' approach taken by traditional lenders.
Revolution breathing new life, and dollars, into lending industry
In the Cookie Cutter range, R&M offers sizes from miniatures to oversized 8" shapes to open stock and set combinations in gift packs or unique tin boxes.
R&M Int'l Corp
Simply set a heart-shaped cookie cutter in a shallow bowl and fill the cutter with jam, yogurt, or granola.
Recipe: sweet start