A cookie cutter is a tool that is used for cutting cookies into a particular shape before you bake them.
[US]
Heart-shaped cookie cutters come in many sizes.
2. adjective [usu ADJ n]
If you describe something as having a cookie-cutter approach or style, you mean that the same approach or style is always used and not enough attention is paid to individual differences.
[US, disapproval]
Too many cookie-cutter condos were built with no attention to consumer needs.
cookie cutter in British English
(ˈkʊkɪ ˈkʌtə)
noun
US
a shape with a sharp edge for cutting individual biscuits from a sheet of dough
cookie-cutter in British English
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
cookie cutter in American English
a piece of metal or plastic shaped in the outline of an animal, geometric figure, etc., used for cutting cookies from dough rolled out in a thin sheet
cookie-cutter in American English
(ˈkʊkiˌkʌtər)
US
adjective
Informal
of or designating a person or thing regarded as indistinguishable from, or monotonously similar to, others of its kind