Meaning of fortune cookie | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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.
2. A quote-of-the-day feature (especially on *nix systems.)
3. The vulva of canine species. Named so due to its resemblance to the snack.
   slang

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Examples

“I read my future in a fortune cookie / Without any safety procedure in mind”

““The Chinese restaurant code. It states that the fortune cookie is not to be taken lightly. Now what do you mean to be doing with this fortune cookie anyway, lad?””

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