white bread

white breadnoun

• 1

  Bread made from white flour.

  • 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?"
  • Well, then, fix it up nice, waiter, and make mine baked hash an’ mashed ’taters and stewed corn and waiter!—plain white bread, no fancy rolls!
• 2

  Bread made from white flour.

  • There's a pretty big difference between American cheese on white bread and sharp cheddar on French bread.
• 3

  derogatoryslurslangA middle-class white person (person of European descent), or a person who 'acts white'.

  • Teyshawn wanted to yell whitebreads did it—fucking whitebreads.
  • evelyn. Fuck you, white bread. vincent. Oh, I'm white? evelyn. You don't act black. vincent. (smiling) And yet, people still treat me like I'm black.

white breadadj

• 1

  derogatoryBland, boring; flavorless.

  • 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
  • This is our chance to make a name for ourselves; to show that we're not just some piss-ant white-bread mountain town.
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  derogatoryslurslangCharacteristic of or relating to middle-class white people.

  • [Rudy] Giuliani is hedging a bit, but he's not the white-bread cop so many blacks expect him to be.