Oreo cookie

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Oreo cookie

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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.

noun Oreo cookies

idiomatic, mildly, pejorative, slang A black person that appears to the community to embody the social and cultural features of a white person 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.
Similar: Oreo
slang A 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?”

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@misc{oreo_cookie_2026,
  title = {Oreo cookie},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/oreo%20cookie},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}