An accounting practice in which a company takes a quantity of large reserves from an economically successful year and incurs them against losses from less successful years, potentially misleading investors into believing that their losses are less than the actual value.

plural of cookie-jar reserve

simple past tense and past participle of catch someone with a hand in the cookie jar

(informal) A person who is very fond of cooking.

plural of cookaholic

plural of cookie-shine

(slang, dated) A tea party (“gathering with snacks”).

(idiomatic, often derogatory) Having a similar appearance or seeming identical; created by some standard or common means; often with the implication that the result is boring, overly simple, or not applicable to all needs.

plural of cookess

(obsolete, rare) A female cook.