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Oliver Cheshire
Oliver Luke Cheshire, British fashion model scouted by Select Model Management, face of Calvin Klein Jeans, Hugo Boss, Ralph Lauren and M&S, Mr Porter Style Councillor, CHÉ label founder, and Pixie Lott's partner.
Oliver Peck
Oliver Peck (born 1971) is an American Traditional tattoo artist, co-owner of Dallas's Elm Street Tattoo, Guinness record holder (415 number-13 tattoos in 24 hours), and Ink Master judge seasons 1-13 until his 2020 blackface controversy exit.
Olivia Culpo
Olivia Frances Culpo, American model, TV personality, and entrepreneur; won Miss Rhode Island, Miss USA, and Miss Universe 2012; SI Swimsuit 2020 cover model; married Christian McCaffrey; founded Picolette baby brand at Target.
Olivia Jordan
Olivia Jordan (born 1988, Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American actress, model, and Miss USA 2015, the first Oklahoman to win that title; second runner-up at Miss Universe 2015, later a Lifetime movie lead and acting coach in Tulsa.
Olivier Rousteing
Olivier Rousteing (born 1985, Bordeaux) is a French fashion designer, Balmain creative director 2011-2025, the Balmain Army and H&M 2015 collaborator, now creative director of Rabanne since July 2026.
Olivier salad
Olivier salad (салат оливье), or Russian salad abroad, is a mayonnaise-bound salad of diced potatoes, peas, eggs, pickles, and sausage or chicken, a New Year staple in post-Soviet countries, reinvented in the Soviet era from Lucien Olivier's 1860s Moscow Hermitage restaurant luxury dish.
Olmec jade working
Olmec jade working is the craft of the Olmec civilization of Mexico's Gulf Coast, which carved jadeite into figurines, masks, and celts from about 1200 to 400 BCE.
Omakase (お任せ)
Omakase (お任せ), "I leave it up to you," is the Japanese ordering format in which the chef selects and sequences all dishes at a fixed price; distinct from okimari and okonomi, now extended beyond sushi worldwide.
Omelette
Omelette (French omelette; Spanish tortilla de patatas; Japanese tamagoyaki): a dish of beaten eggs cooked in a pan, often folded around fillings; word from Latin lamella, English from the 1610s, earliest recipes in Le Ménagier de Paris.
Omelette dress
The omelette dress, also called the Yellow Queen, is a canary-yellow fur-trimmed cape designed by Guo Pei and worn by Rihanna at the 2015 Met Gala.
One red paperclip
One red paperclip: Kyle MacDonald's 2005-2006 barter project trading a red paperclip through 14 Craigslist trades up to a house in Kipling, Saskatchewan; Guinness record, book, and teaching legacy.
One Surfing Co
ONE SURFING CO, a Hossegor, France surf brand founded 2022 (SARL ONE ACTION SPORTS), sells Japanese limestone-neoprene wetsuits and runs the ONE ATHLETE monthly wetsuit subscription; unrelated to the OneSurf training app.
One thousand origami cranes (千羽鶴)
Senbazuru (千羽鶴), one thousand origami cranes, is a Japanese custom of stringing folded cranes to wish for healing, longevity, or peace, tied to the legend of a granted wish and to Sadako Sasaki and Hiroshima's Children's Peace Monument.
One-piece swimsuit
One-piece swimsuit (maillot): a single-piece swimsuit covering the torso, worn for swimming or beachwear, especially by women. Distinguished from the bikini by continuous torso coverage; traces to the Victorian Princess suit, Annette Kellermann's 1907 arrest, and Rose Marie Reid's 1950 elastic pull-on patent.
Onitsuka Tiger
Onitsuka Tiger (オニツカタイガー) is a Japanese footwear and fashion brand founded in Kobe in 1949 by Kihachiro Onitsuka; its company became ASICS in 1977, and the brand was revived as a fashion label in 2002 with the Mexico 66.
Online food ordering
Online food ordering: customers order food via websites, apps, QR-code menus, kiosks, or delivery platforms like Meituan and Ele.me. Covers channels, 15–30% platform commissions, consumer cost premiums, and adoption data.
Oolong (乌龙茶)
Oolong (乌龙茶), also called blue tea, is a partially oxidized Camellia sinensis tea made by withering, tumbling, partial oxidation, fixing, rolling, and drying. Main producers are Fujian, Guangdong, and Taiwan; oxidation spans roughly 10–80%.
Open sandwich
Open sandwich (open-faced sandwich; Danish smørrebrød, Norwegian smørbrød, Swedish smörgås): one slice of bread topped with food rather than enclosed between two slices; rooted in medieval trenchers and central to Scandinavian lunch culture.
Operation Feed the Nation
Operation Feed the Nation was a mass agricultural campaign launched by Nigeria's military government under General Obasanjo in 1976 to raise food production; it was replaced in 1979.
Opus Anglicanum
Opus Anglicanum, Latin for "English work," is the luxurious embroidery made in England from about the 12th to the early 16th centuries, prized across medieval Europe.
Orange chicken
Orange chicken (美式陈皮鸡) is a Chinese-American dish of battered, fried chicken in a sweet-spicy orange sauce, created in 1987 by chef Andy Kao at a Hawaiian Panda Express and inspired by Hunan tangerine-peel chicken.
Orange extract (hesperidin)
Orange extract (hesperidin): a powder from immature sweet orange (Citrus sinensis) peel, ≥85% hesperidin, GRAS under FDA GRN 796 (Ferrer HealthTech, 2019) for foods at 500 mg per serving.
Orange juice
Orange juice is the unfermented juice of mature Citrus sinensis oranges, sold fresh, not-from-concentrate, reconstituted, or as frozen concentrate (FCOJ, 65–66 °Brix). Distinguished by pasteurization at 85–94 °C, added-back flavor packs, Brazil-led production, and US/EU juice labeling law.
Orange Julius
Orange Julius: 1926 Los Angeles beverage chain founded by Julius Freed with Bill Hamlin's frothy orange drink; bought by Dairy Queen in 1988 and now sold mainly at DQ locations.
Orange walk
Orange walk: parades by the Protestant Orange Order during the summer marching season in Northern Ireland, Scotland, and the Commonwealth, commemorating William of Orange's 1690 Battle of the Boyne victory; regulated by the Parades Commission and contested at flashpoints such as Drumcree's Garvaghy Road.
Orange wine
Orange wine, also called skin-contact white or amber wine (Georgian qvevri style), is white wine fermented on its skins for days to months, giving amber color, tannin, and texture like a light red; defined by OIV as white wine with at least one month maceration.
Orangina
Orangina is a French carbonated soft drink made from orange juice, pulp, and natural orange zest, first sold in 1936 and known for its bulbous orange-shaped bottle.
Orecchiette
Orecchiette, "little ears," are hand-shaped concave pasta from Puglia, Italy, made of durum semolina, water, and salt; classic dish orecchiette con le cime di rapa; variants include strascinati and chiancareddde.
Oreo
Oreo: chocolate sandwich cookie brand created by Nabisco in 1912, now owned by Mondelēz International and sold in over 100 countries as the world's top-selling cookie. Outlasted predecessor Hydrox (1908); famous for Double Stuf, twist-lick-dunk marketing, and global localized flavors.
Orgeat syrup
Orgeat syrup, also called orzata, is a sweet non-alcoholic almond syrup with orange flower or rose water, originally a barley drink. Essential to the Mai Tai and tiki cocktails; homemade versions keep about two weeks refrigerated.