oreo

plural oreos

1. Alternative letter-case form of Oreo.

   The young woman said, "Well, actually we do have one minority student." The young man chimed in, "Yeah, but he's an oreo." "An oreo?" I asked. "Please define the term oreo." "You know," the young man said. "Black on the outside, and white in the middle."

   2012, Walter B.J. Mitchell, Stories I Tell My High School English Students, page 78

plural Oreos

1. foodsA 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.

   “You can feed, like, an entire city,” he marvels, before salivating over Oreos, Nilla Wafers, jugs of milk, eggs, a sausage wrapped in a pancake on a stick.

   2026 July 9, Sophie Haigney, “World Cup Tourists Are Giving Americans Exactly What We Crave”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

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   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 first. Adults dunk them in milk.

   1984 December, Michael Norman, “The Junk Food Hall of Fame”, in Cincinnati Magazine, page 67

   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 explored the connection between Oreos and rheology, Owens found mention of a 2016 Princeton University study in which physicists first reported that indeed, when twisting Oreos by hand, the cream almost always came off on one wafer.

   2022 April 19, Jennifer Chu, “MIT Engineers Introduce the Oreometer”, in MIT News

   Synonyms: Oreo cookie

2. USderogatoryethnicslurA 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

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   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 grooming that brand them as "Oreos," black on the outside and white in the middle.

   [2002 November 26, Adrienne Crew, “BAP like me”, in Salon, archived from the original on 15 Jul 2007

   Synonyms: Uncle Tom