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whitebread

whitebread is the alternative spelling of white bread.

Meaning of white bread

Noun

white bread (usually uncountable, plural white breads)

  1. (usually) Bread made from white flour.
    • Yes—just become a Communist, and things get all right. Deny your Christ and they will give you white bread in plenty and clothes to wear—" He would hold his breath, would wonder and question: "What is white bread? And who is Christ?"1933, Edith Almedingen, “White Bread for Creeds”, in The Catholic World, volume 136
    1. (idiomatic, often, usually) A storebought, mass-produced, inexpensive type of such bread that is very soft and is usually in the Pullman loaf shape.
      • There's a pretty big difference between American cheese on white bread and sharp cheddar on French bread.
  2. (US, derogatory, ethnic, often, slang, slur) A middle-class white person (person of European descent), or a person who 'acts white'.
    • Teyshawn wanted to yell whitebreads did it—fucking whitebreads.2006, Michael Soltys, The Grass Is Green, section 296

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Forms of whitebread

Noun
pluralwhitebreads
Adjective
comparativemore whitebread
superlativemost whitebread

Questions about whitebread

What is whitebread the alternative spelling of?
Whitebread is the alternative spelling of white bread.

Words near whitebread in the dictionary

  1. whiteboards
  2. whitebook
  3. whiteboy
  4. Whiteboyism
  5. whiteboys
  6. whitebread
  7. whitebreads
  8. whitebream
  9. whitebreams
  10. Whitebridge
  11. Whitebrook

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