Oreo

A cookie made of two wafers joined with a sugary filling, particularly a Nabisco cookie with two alkalized cocoa-powder wafers around a white creme filling.

Noun

  1. A cookie made of two wafers joined with a sugary filling, particularly a Nabisco cookie with two alkalized cocoa-powder wafers around a white creme filling.
    • The Oreo is really an antidepressant drug disguised as a cookie. You lost your job? Eat a bag of Oreos[…] There are two ways to eat Oreos. Kids like to pull the chocolate wafers apart and eat the sweat, creamy middle...
    • While Oreo cream may not appear to possess fluid-like properties, it is considered a "yield stress fluid""—a soft solid when unperturbed that can start to flow under enough stress[…] Curious as to whether other had...

    Synonyms: Oreo cookie

  2. A black person who has overly assimilated into white culture, a black race traitor.
    • She's a pure Oreo. You know, like the cookie, black outside and white inside. - 1971, Iceberg Slim, The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim, Holloway House:
    • Growing up in white suburbs and attending elite schools and institutions of higher learning, black American prince and princesses are immersed in Anglo (often WASP) culture and emerge with modes of speech, behavior and...

    Coordinate Terms: coconut egg Twinkie banana wigger

Origin

Brand name of unknown origin, trademarked by National Biscuit Company on 14 March 1912. See the Etymology section of Wikipedia's Oreo article for various theories. In reference to well-assimilated black people, derived from the slur that they are "black on the outside, white on the inside".

Forms

Oreos

Wikipedia

Oreo: Etymology

Synonyms

Uncle Tom

Hypernyms

cookie snack junk food