half-breed adjective 2noun 2forms 1 adjective2 •Hybridized; having one purebred parent; descended from parents of different breeds or with different traits •(offensive, old-fashioned) having dual heritage; having mixed racial parentage or ancestry noun2 •A hybrid animal or plant. •(offensive, old-fashioned) A person of mixed racial parentage or ancestry, especially one of mixed white and American Indian parentage (metis, métis, Metis, Métis; mestizo).Except for a few half-breeds in the town, there are no native Christians in the island of Timor. — 1869 formshalf-breeds
Half-Breed noun1 •A member of the Half-Breeds, a former Republican political party during the Gilded Age. formsHalf-Breeds