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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

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