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Oreo cookie

Oreo cookie noun: a black person that appears to the community to embody the social and cultural features of a white person.

Noun

Oreo cookie (plural Oreo cookies)

  1. (idiomatic, mildly, pejorative, slang) A black person that appears to the community to embody the social and cultural features of a white person
    • oreo cookie, derogatory term from the 1960s, from the trade name for the cookies consisting of two chocolate biscuits sandwiching a white creamy center. Oreo is used for a black person — black on the outside white on the inside.1997, Philip Herbst, The Color of Words, page 172
    • other subtypes (Uncle Tom, Oreo cookie) might be salient in other contexts.1998, Susan T. Fiske, Daniel Todd Gilbert, Gardner Lindzey, The handbook of social psychology, volume 2, page 379
    Synonyms:
    Oreo
  2. (slang, sexual) A threeway involving two black participants and one white participant between them
    • Jake and I did not know if it was going to be a white guy or a black guy, and I kind of think it might have turned out, to be a white guy. Jake, I think maybe we just completed the ole Oreo cookie thing! Don't you?”2011, Wade Wright, Jay, Jake and Jimmy, page 59

Synonyms of Oreo cookie

Forms of Oreo cookie

pluralOreo cookies

Origin of Oreo cookie

By analogy with the proprietary "Oreo Cookie" that is black on the outside and white on the inside, implying that certain black people are white at heart.

Questions about Oreo cookie

What does Oreo cookie mean?
Oreo cookie means a black person that appears to the community to embody the social and cultural features of a white person.
What part of speech is Oreo cookie?
Oreo cookie is a noun.
What is the plural of Oreo cookie?
The plural of Oreo cookie is Oreo cookies.

Words near Oreo cookie in the dictionary

  1. orenges
  2. Orenoco
  3. Orense
  4. Orenthal
  5. oreo
  6. Oreo cookie
  7. Oreo cookies
  8. Oreo Namaz
  9. oreochromine
  10. oreochromines
  11. oreodine

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