NOUN
- an offensive term for an offspring of parents of different racial group (especially of Caucasian and American Indian ancestry)
ADJECTIVE
- (of animals) having only one purebred parent
How To Use half-breed In A Sentence
- These latter were a Chinese cook named Algy, a Piute Indian half-breed called Cayuse, and two rare souls -- Napoleon G. Blink and The Furnace of Gold
- Nonetheless, these closely related plants occasionally cross-pollinate and spawn seedlings which grow into sterile, half-breed banana plants.
- And that handsome-looking fellow putting the capote under his head is a French half-breed, -- you heard him talking; he doesn't like the two Indians turning in next to him. An Odyssey of the North
- Of an inquiring and gregarious nature he went as much among the half-breeds -- or 'metis', as they are called -- and Indians as among the officers of the Hudson's Bay The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
- Frenchmen with Indian women there grew up in Canada a large class of half-breed "voyageurs" (travelers) and "coureurs de bois French Pathfinders in North America
- A deadly light glittered in the half-breed's eyes, and for the first time David realized that in the grotesque head of the riverman was a brain quick to grip at the significance of things. The Flaming Forest
- And the removal of the cruel whiphand, or in other words the bulldozing half-breed, had brought with it a joyous reaction. The Son of the Wolf
- Held, accordingly, that the fourth section of the Act of Congress, of September 27th, 1850, granting by way of donation, lands in Oregon Territory, to every white settler or occupant, American half-breed Indians included, embraced within the term single man an unmarried woman. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II
- There were Slavonian hunters, fair-skinned and mighty-muscled; short, squat Finns, with flat noses and round faces; Siberian half-breeds, whose noses were more like eagle - beaks; and lean, slant-eyed men, who bore in their veins the Mongol and Tartar blood as well as the blood of the Slav. NEGORE, THE COWARD
- The segregation rules were waved and vampires, humans, half-breeds, shape-shifters and all other supernatural denominations were allowed to live up there together.
