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Uncle Tom verb (used of a black person) to try to curry favour with white people by obsequious behaviour US, 1937- We’d stand in line and wait for hours, smiling and Uncle Tomming every time a doctor or nurse passed by. — Dick Gregory, Nigger, p. 27, 1964
- But for two bits, Uncle Tom a little–white cats especially like that. — Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, p. 47, 1964
- Of all people, why’d they kill Malcolm? Why’n’t they kill some of them Uncle-Tomming m.f.’s? — Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice, p. 51, 1968
- Blue thundered, “You ugly, shit-colored uncle-tomming motherfucker.” — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Trick Baby, p. 230, 1969
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