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coconut
noun- a Mexican American who rejects his heritage and seeks to blend in with the white majority US
Like a coconut, brown on the outside but white on the inside. - — Dagoberto Fuentes and Jose Lopez, Barrio Language Dictionary, p. 32, 1974
- Shot full of holes, he apparently only had one worry: that these coconut assholes might accidentally drop him over a cliff and kill him. — Joseph Wambaugh, Lines and Shadows, p. 138, 1984
- — Multicultural Management Program Fellows, Dictionary of Cautionary Words and Phrases, 1989
- a black or Indian person who is considered to have exchanged heritage and community values for acceptance by white society UK
A coconut is brown on the outside, white on the inside. - — New Society, p. 515, 24 September 1981
- [A]ll he got from the community, his community, was [...] a lot of abuse about being an “Uncle Tom,” a “house nigga,” a “coconut.” — Karline Smith, Moss Side Massive, p. 181, 1994
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 38, 1996
- an Australian Aboriginal who has adopted the values of white society AUSTRALIA, 1980
- Ambrose and the Talbots don’t get on. He reckons they’re coconuts. — Shane Maloney, Nice Try, p. 42, 1998
- a Pacific Islander NEW ZEALAND
- This is the elite part of town. Islanders, Chiamen and Maoris, Coconuts, horis and chinks. — Charles Frances, Johnny Rapana, p. 121, 1964
- a clod, a dolt US
- — Miss Cone, The Slang Dictionary (Hawthorne High School), 1965
- cocaine US
- — US Department of Justice, Street Terms, August 1994
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