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Oreo cookies

Oreo cookies is the plural of Oreo cookie.

Meaning of Oreo cookie

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
    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

Questions about Oreo cookies

What is Oreo cookies the plural of?
Oreo cookies is the plural of Oreo cookie.

Words near Oreo cookies in the dictionary

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

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