Usually means: Submissive to white authority figure.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word Uncle Tom:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. uncle tom: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Uncle Tom, Uncle Tom: Merriam-Webster
  3. Uncle Tom: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Uncle Tom: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Uncle Tom: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Uncle Tom: Vocabulary.com
  7. Uncle Tom, Uncle tom: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Uncle Tom: Wiktionary
  9. Uncle Tom: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Uncle Tom: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. uncle tom: Dictionary.com
  12. Uncle Tom: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Uncle Tom, Uncle tom: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Uncle tom: Rhymezone
  15. Uncle Tom: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  16. Uncle Tom: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  17. uncle tom: FreeDictionary.org
  18. uncle tom: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. Uncle Tom: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tom, Uncle, Uncle Tom: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Uncle Tom: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Uncle Tom: Botanical Name listing of Plants

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Uncle Tom (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. uncle Tom, Uncle Tom, Uncle Tom, Uncle Tom: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. Uncle Tom: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  5. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See uncle_tomism as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Uncle Tom)

noun:  (derogatory, ethnic slur) A black man who is servile towards white authority and accepting of white supremacy, a black race traitor.

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