Meaning of half-breed | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person of mixed racial parentage or ancestry, especially one of mixed white and American Indian parentage (metis, métis, Metis, Métis; mestizo).
   dated, derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur
2. A member of the Half-Breeds, a former Republican political party during the Gilded Age.
3. A hybrid animal or plant.

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Examples

“Except for a few half-breeds in the town, there are no native Christians in the island of Timor.”

“It was at Para also that we engaged Gomez and Manuel, two half-breeds from up the river, just come down with a cargo of redwood.”

“The half-breeds or Metis along the Saskatchewan River asked that they be given a legal title to the land which they occupied. […] The half-breeds found that constitutional agitation was hopeless and began open hostilities.”

“Some oppose A.I.M. leaders as outsiders; some resent the leadership of Mr. Wilson; full‐blooded Indians resent halfbreeds; the have‐nots resent those with relative wealth.”

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