"Oreo cookie" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "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.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Oreo cookies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Oreo cookie (plural Oreo cookies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "53 47",
      "word": "Uncle Tom"
    }
  ],
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997, Philip Herbst, The Color of Words, page 172",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Susan T. Fiske, Daniel Todd Gilbert, Gardner Lindzey, The handbook of social psychology, volume 2, page 379",
          "text": "other subtypes (Uncle Tom, Oreo cookie) might be salient in other contexts.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, James Sullivan, The Hardest Working Man: How James Brown Saved the Soul of America, link",
          "text": "You don't have to be like an Oreo cookie, brother",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A black person that appears to the community to embody the social and cultural features of a white person"
      ],
      "id": "en-Oreo_cookie-en-noun-Th47Avoh",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, idiomatic, mildly pejorative) A black person that appears to the community to embody the social and cultural features of a white person"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "mildly",
        "pejorative",
        "slang"
      ]
    },
    {
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          "_dis": "52 48",
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          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Wade Wright, Jay, Jake and Jimmy, page 59",
          "text": "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?”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A threeway involving two black participants and one white participant between them"
      ],
      "id": "en-Oreo_cookie-en-noun-Q4gbK-f8",
      "links": [
        [
          "threeway",
          "threeway"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "sexual",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, sexual) A threeway involving two black participants and one white participant between them"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-Oreo cookie.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/70/En-au-Oreo_cookie.ogg/En-au-Oreo_cookie.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/En-au-Oreo_cookie.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "53 47",
      "word": "Oreo"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Oreo cookie"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with audio links"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "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.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Oreo cookies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Oreo cookie (plural Oreo cookies)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "Uncle Tom"
    }
  ],
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        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997, Philip Herbst, The Color of Words, page 172",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1998, Susan T. Fiske, Daniel Todd Gilbert, Gardner Lindzey, The handbook of social psychology, volume 2, page 379",
          "text": "other subtypes (Uncle Tom, Oreo cookie) might be salient in other contexts.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, James Sullivan, The Hardest Working Man: How James Brown Saved the Soul of America, link",
          "text": "You don't have to be like an Oreo cookie, brother",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A black person that appears to the community to embody the social and cultural features of a white person"
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, idiomatic, mildly pejorative) A black person that appears to the community to embody the social and cultural features of a white person"
      ],
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        "mildly",
        "pejorative",
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      ]
    },
    {
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Wade Wright, Jay, Jake and Jimmy, page 59",
          "text": "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?”",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A threeway involving two black participants and one white participant between them"
      ],
      "links": [
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          "threeway"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "sexual",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, sexual) A threeway involving two black participants and one white participant between them"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-Oreo cookie.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/70/En-au-Oreo_cookie.ogg/En-au-Oreo_cookie.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/En-au-Oreo_cookie.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Oreo"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Oreo cookie"
}