Oreo cookie

plural Oreo cookies

1. idiomaticmildlypejorativeslangA black person that appears to the community to embody the social and cultural features of a white person

   You don't have to be like an Oreo cookie, brother

   2009, James Sullivan, The Hardest Working Man: How James Brown Saved the Soul of America, link

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   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.

   1997, Philip Herbst, The Color of Words, page 172

   other subtypes (Uncle Tom, Oreo cookie) might be salient in other contexts.

   1998, Susan T. Fiske, Daniel Todd Gilbert, Gardner Lindzey, The handbook of social psychology, volume 2, page 379

   Synonyms: Oreo

2. slangsexualA threeway involving two black participants and one white participant between them

   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?”

   2011, Wade Wright, Jay, Jake and Jimmy, page 59