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• cookie monster n. [from the children's TV program "Sesame Street"] Any of a family of early (1970s) hacks reported on TOPS-10
  ITS, Multics, and that would lock up either the victim's terminal (on a time-sharing machine) or the console (on a batch mainframe), repeatedly demanding "I WANT A COOKIE"....
• cookie monster: [from the children's TV program "Sesame Street"] n.
  Any of a family of early (1970s) hacks reported on {{TOPS-10}}, {{ITS}}, {{Multics}}, and elsewhere that would lock up either the victim's terminal (on a time-sharing machine) or the {{console}} (on a batch {mainframe}), repeatedly demanding "I WANT A COOKIE"....
• cookie bear n. obs. Original term, pre-Sesame-Street, for what is now universally called a cookie monster.
  A correspondent observes "In those days, hackers were actually getting their yucks from....
• Looking for a monster -- use a staff of monster summoning.
• Cookie! Cookie! Lend me your crumb! ...
• IBM: Incredibly Big Monste
• PMS: Periodic Monster Syndrome.
• Farfignewton: Cookie Flatulence