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

Derived forms: Uncle Toms

Type of: Black, Black person, character, fictional character, fictitious character

Encyclopedia: Uncle Tom