high-cheekboners

A form of high-cheekboner — Synonym of box checker (“someone who is counted in an organization as representing a minority ethnic group but who is so assimilated into the dominant culture that their ethnic status becomes meaningless”).

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of high-cheekboner
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