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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: foods
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Synonyms: Oreo cookie
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A black person who has overly assimilated into white culture, a black race traitor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, derogatory, ethnic, slur
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Alternative letter-case form of Oreo.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
chocolate cookie with white cream filling
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: oreo cookie
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cookie, cooky, biscuit
History
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".
Genericized use of Oreo, q.v.
Across languages
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
