Uncle Tom

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

(informal, !!!) (offensive) sometimes used in the past to refer to a black man who wants to please or serve white people

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

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Uncle TomEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus Uncle TomEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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Uncle Tom