cookie-cutter

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

cookie + cutter

[edit] Adjective

cookie-cutter (comparative more cookie-cutter, superlative most cookie-cutter)

1. Of or pertaining to cookie cutters.
2. (idiomatic), (often disparaging) Looking or seeming identical; created by some standard or common means; often with the implication that the result is common, boring, or not applicable to all needs.

   The subdivision was nothing but row after row of cookie-cutter houses.

   I don't think a cookie-cutter solution will work in all cases.