coconut

1. (uncountable) The edible white flesh of this fruit.uncountable

2. (derogatory, ethnic slur) A member of any of various dark-skinned ethnic groups (e.g. Hispanic, South Asian, or black) who is considered to have overly assimilated to white culture:Examples: "After that I was regarded as comic. I became a ‘coconut’—someone brown on the outside, white on the inside. I was the bleached academic—more white than the anglo professors. In my classes several students glared at me, clearly seeing in me the person they feared ever becoming. Who was I, after all, but some comic Queequeg, holding close to my breast a reliquary containing the white powder of a dead European civilization?"UScountablederogatoryethnicsluruncountable

3. (derogatory, ethnic slur) A member of any of various dark-skinned ethnic groups (e.g. Hispanic, South Asian, or black) who is considered to have overly assimilated to white culture:Examples: "Their convictions challenged those critics who dismissed John Githongo’s anti-corruption efforts as the naïve projection of inappropriate ‘mzungu’ values onto an African nation where they were doomed to fail. If John was a ‘coconut’, he certainly wasn’t the only coconut in Kenya."; "Your mum is a white whore, you coconut."Synonyms: Oreo, Uncle TomAustraliaKenyaSouth-Africacountablederogatoryethnicsluruncountable

4. (derogatory, ethnic slur) A member of any of various dark-skinned ethnic groups (e.g. Hispanic, South Asian, or black) who is considered to have overly assimilated to white culture:Singaporecountablederogatoryethnicsluruncountable

5. (derogatory, ethnic slur) A member of any of various dark-skinned ethnic groups (e.g. Hispanic, South Asian, or black) who is considered to have overly assimilated to white culture:Malaysiacountablederogatoryethnicsluruncountable

6. (New Zealand, derogatory, ethnic slur) A Pacific islander.New-Zealandcountablederogatoryethnicsluruncountable