Definition of "cdr"

cdr

/ˈku.də/

noun
plural cdrs
1. (programming) The second part of a cons in Lisp. The remainder of a list when the first element is removed.
  Quotations
  The elements of a list are the successive cars along the "cdr chain." That is, the elements are the car, the car of the cdr, the car of the cdr of the cdr, etc.
  2000, Matt Kaufmann, Panagiotis Manolios, J Strother Moore, Computer-aided reasoning: an approach