halfsie

plural halfsies

1. One whose membership in a group is only through one parent or through a partial commitment.

   Julie says: I am an atheist, although among family and friends I call myself a "halfsie."

   1992, Leslie Goodman-Malamuth, Robin Margolis, Between Two Worlds

   3 more examples

   When she was eighteen, she went on a United Synagogue Youth Tour (one hundred and twenty all-Jewish high schoolers and one halfsie).

   1976, Susan Berman, Driver, give a soldier a lift, page 110

   A halfsie herself, Sarah has "always been primarily attracted to Jewish men" and felt that JDate would help her narrow down her options.

   2006, Newvoices, page 52

   The fact that it does not matter that Julio is a "halfsie" becomes a moot point when we begin to realize that a strict biological and national essentialism cannot operate in a cultural context that is based on the more open social epistemologies that are set in place in Spansih Harlem.

   2008, José L Torres-Padilla, Carmen Haydée Rivera, Writing Off the Hyphen