noun
1. (ethnic slur) offensive and derogatory name for a Black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to Whites
• Syn: ↑Tom
• Usage Domain: ↑ethnic slur, ↑disparagement, ↑depreciation, ↑derogation
• Hypernyms: ↑Black, ↑Black person, ↑blackamoor, ↑Negro, ↑Negroid
2. a servile black character in a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑fictional character, ↑fictitious character, ↑character
Useful english dictionary. 2012.