English

Oreo cookies

Noun

Oreo ‎(plural Oreos)

1. A cookie made up of two dark brown, chocolate wafers joined by a layer of white, sugary filling.
2. (US, mildly pejorative, slang) A black person who appears to the community to embody the social and cultural features of a white person
   • 1971, Iceberg Slim, The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim, Holloway House:

     She's a pure Oreo. You know, like the cookie, black outside and white inside.

Coordinate terms

• (acting white): coconut, Twinkie

Translations

See also

• Uncle Tom
• Oreo cookie

Anagrams

• oo-er, ooer

Spanish

Noun

oreo m ‎(plural oreos)

1. breeze
2. fresh air

Verb

oreo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of orear.