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Noun: Uncle Tom
  1. A servile black character in a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe
     
  2. [US, offensive] (ethnic slur) offensive and derogatory name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites

Derived forms: Uncle Toms

Type of: character, fictional character, fictitious character

Encyclopedia: Uncle Tom

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uncle
Uncle Joe
Uncle Remus
Uncle Sam
Uncle Tom
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