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English
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.
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Noun
Oreo cookie (plural Oreo cookies)
- (slang, idiomatic, mildly pejorative) A black person that appears to the community to embody the social and cultural features of a white person
1997, Philip Herbst, The Color of Words, page 172: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.
1998, Susan T. Fiske, Daniel Todd Gilbert, Gardner Lindzey, The handbook of social psychology, volume 2, page 379:other subtypes (Uncle Tom, Oreo cookie) might be salient in other contexts.
2009, James Sullivan, The Hardest Working Man: How James Brown Saved the Soul of America, link:You don't have to be like an Oreo cookie, brother
- (slang, sexual) A threeway involving two black participants and one white participant between them
2011, Wade Wright, Jay, Jake and Jimmy, page 59: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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