- cookie-cutter
- adjective
Date: 1963
marked by lack of originality or distinction <cookie-cutter shopping malls>
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
cookie-cutter
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cookie-cutter — /kook ee kut euhr/, adj. 1. having the same configuration or look as many others of a given kind; identical: rows of cookie cutter houses. 2. lacking individuality; stereotyped or formulaic: a novel filled with cookie cutter characters. * * * … Universalium
