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Hyphenated american

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Noun
  1. 1
    A U.S. American with an ethnicity commonly written in hyphenated form, such as an African-American or Irish-American, emphasizing their difference from their unhyphenated compatriots. derogatory, sometimes

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In use since the last decade of the 19th century.

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