1. (ethnic slur) offensive and derogatory name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites; [syn: Tom, Uncle Tom]
2. a servile black character in a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe;
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Uncle Tom
n 1: (ethnic slur) offensive and derogatory name for a Black man
who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites [syn:
Tom, Uncle Tom]
2: a servile black character in a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe