halfie

plural halfies · alternative halfy

1. informalA person of mixed-race ancestry.

   I went through an awkward patch on my halfie journey, being self-conscious about not looking like the other white kids.

   2022 September 19, E. Alex Jung, quoting Karen O, “In Conversation: Karen O”, in New York

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   But, in this story, it is perfectly acceptable for a young Latino man to choose to date, and to want to date a brown girl, a white girl, a black girl or a halfie.

   2003, Bridget A. Kevane, Latino Literature in America, page 78

   Multiracial, mulatto, mixed-nuts, halfies: Whatever you want to call us today, we remain the fastest growing demographic in our country.

   2024 August 4, Danzy Senna, “In Kamala Harris’s Blackness, I See My Own”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

2. slangA half-smoked cigarette.