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plural Oreos
(foods) A 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. quotations examples
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, "Junk Food", Cincinnati, p. 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", MIT News
(US, derogatory, ethnic slur) A black person considered to have overly assimilated to white culture, a black race traitor. quotations examples
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