Meaning of Oreo cookie | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A black person that appears to the community to embody the social and cultural features of a white person
   idiomatic, mildly, pejorative, slang
2. A threeway involving two black participants and one white participant between them
   slang

Examples

“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.”

“other subtypes (Uncle Tom, Oreo cookie) might be salient in other contexts.”

“You don't have⟳ to be like⟳ an Oreo cookie, brother”

“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?””

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