| Noun | 1. | fortune cookie - thin folded wafer containing a maxim on a slip of paper |
| fortune cookie - (WAITS, via the Unix "fortune" program) A quotation, item
of trivia, joke, or maxim selected at random from a collection
(the "cookie file") and printed to the user's tty at login
time or (less commonly) at logout time. There was a fortune program on TOPS-20. |