Oreo cookie | Idiomator

Meaning: (slang,idiomatic,mildly pejorative)A black person that appears to the community to embody the social and cultural features of a white person1997, Philip Herbst,The Color of Words‎[1], page172: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.1998, Susan T. Fiske, Daniel Todd Gilbert, Gardner Lindzey,The handbook of social psychology, volume 2,page379:other subtypes (Uncle Tom,Oreo cookie) might be salient in other contexts.2009, James Sullivan,The Hardest Working Man: How James Brown Saved the Soul of America,link:You don't have to be like an Oreo cookie, brother; (slang,sexual)Athreewayinvolving two black participants and one white participant between them2011, Wade Wright,Jay, Jake and Jimmy‎[2], page59: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 oleOreo cookiething! Don't you?”

Examples:

EN: I feel like an Oreo cookie.
ES: Me siento como una galleta Oreo.
EN: - Hey, the Oreo cookie's leavin'!
ES: -¡Eh, la galleta Oreo se larga!
EN: Like an Oreo cookie.
ES: Como una galleta Oreo.
ES: Como una galleta Oreo.
ES: Como una galleta Oreo.
EN: An Oreo cookie for me?
ES: ¿ Una galleta Oreo para mí?
EN: A message to the Oreo cookie.
ES: Un mensaje a la galletita Oreo.
EN: You know, once she ate a half of a plastic Oreo cookie before she realized it was a refrigerator magnet.
ES: Una vez se comió media galleta Oreo de plástico... antes de descubrir que era el imán del frigorífico.
EN: Meadow thinks she'd be dating the Oreo cookie if not for me.
ES: Meadow cree que todavía estaría con el cabeza de Oreo si no fuese por mí.
EN: The Oreo cookie shake.
ES: Un batido de galletas Oreo.
EN: It's chocolate pie with Oreo cookie crust... and sometimes you can get Luke to put gummy worms in it... like worms in the mud, so you can imagine.
ES: Es pastel de chocolate con galletitas Oreo... y a veces Luke le pone gusanos de goma... como gusanos en el barro, ya se Io imaginará.
EN: "Christopher, what's the best part of an Oreo cookie?"
ES: "Christopher, ¿cuál es la mejor parte de una galletita Oreo?"
EN: What is the best part of an Oreo cookie?
ES: ¿Cuál es la mejor parte de una galletita Oreo?
EN: Like an Oreo cookie?
ES: ¿Como una galleta Oreo?
EN: When we get together we're like an Oreo cookie covered in sweat.
ES: Cuando nos juntamos, somos como una galleta Oreo cubierta de sudor.
EN: 1912, the year that marks the sinking of the Titanic, the debut of the Oreo cookie just look it up, and also one of the puzzling and notorious murders in Iowa history.
ES: Mil novecientos doce es el año del hundimiento del Titanic, del debut de las galletas Oreo, pueden buscarlo, y de uno de los más desconcertantes y notables... asesinatos en Iowa.
EN: They got Oreo cookie crusted
ES: Tienen galleta Oreo con costra

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