a device, usually of metal, for cutting shaped forms, as circles or stars, for cookies from dough that has been rolled flat.
Origin
1900-05, Americanism
cookie-cutter
[koo k-ee-kuht-er] /ˈkʊk iˌkʌt ər/
adjective
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.
Examples from the web for cookie-cutter
About a tenth of the landscape was cut out in cookie-cutter shapes.
Straying away from cookie-cutter decorations, each room in the three buildings has its own arrangement.
Boutique hotels that defy the cookie-cutter formula expect another big year.
Two cookie-cutter basic room types, village room and village loft with kitchen facilities, come centrally located in the village.
Even the cookie-cutter housing developments, with their xeriscaping and washed-out desert palette, remind you where you are.
It's never a good idea to conclude that all departments in your discipline will be cookie-cutter copies of your own department.
No cookie-cutter strategy will serve the needs of every college.
These cookie-cutter ads, to put it mildly, are half-baked.
Woods still communicates with his fans through bland postings on his cookie-cutter website.
They wanted family homes that provide a variety of housing choices, not cookie-cutter neighborhoods.
British Dictionary definitions for cookie-cutter
cookie-cutter
noun
1.
a shape with a sharp edge for cutting individual biscuits from a sheet of dough
adjective
2.
resembling many others of the same kind: a row of cookie-cutter houses
Slang definitions & phrases for cookie-cutter
cookie-cutter
modifier
(also cookie-cut) Identical and unoriginal; standardized; stereotyped: Each store is a cookie-cutter copy, laid out according to plans devised at the corporate headquarters/ I'd never want to read that kind of cookie-cut magazine
noun
A police officer's badge; potsy, tin(1920s+ Circus)