oreo cookie
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.93 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A black person that appears to the community to embody the social and cultural features of a white person
Slang
Example Sentences
- "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?”"
Etymology
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.