Oreo cookies
Oreo cookies is the plural of Oreo cookie.
Meaning of Oreo cookie
Noun
Oreo cookie (plural Oreo cookies)
- 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
- 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.
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