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White bread
adj, noun, slang
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Adjective
- 1 Bland, boring; flavorless. US, colloquial, derogatory
"She's been living in her white bread world / As long as anyone with hot blood can / And now she's looking for a downtown man"
- 2 Characteristic of or relating to middle-class white people. US, colloquial, derogatory, ethnic, often, slur
"[Rudy] Giuliani is hedging a bit, but he's not the white-bread cop so many blacks expect him to be."
Noun
- 1 Bread made from white flour. uncountable, usually
"Yes—just become a Communist, and things get all right. Deny your Christ and they will give you white bread in plenty and clothes to wear—" He would hold his breath, would wonder and question: "What is white bread? And who is Christ?""
- 2 bread made with finely ground and usually bleached wheat flour wordnet
- 3 Bread made from white flour.; A storebought, mass-produced, inexpensive type of such bread that is very soft. idiomatic, often, uncountable, usually
"There's a pretty big difference between American cheese on white bread and sharp cheddar on French bread."
- 4 A middle-class white person (person of European descent), or a person who 'acts white'. US, derogatory, ethnic, often, slur, uncountable, usually
"Teyshawn wanted to yell whitebreads did it—fucking whitebreads."
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