Definition of "half-bred" [half•-bred]

• Having only one parent that is purebred; half-blooded. Used of animals. (adjective)

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• "A Roma would trust anyone before a diddakoibefore the half-bred people who were born of gypsy and gorja."
• "The Director thought that the changeling, whom he had seen, was very likely a half-bred hunter, which hadn't been eligible for Stud Book entry in the first place, and of whom there would be no official record anywhere."
• "Vivi, deciding that they should use a half-bred unregistered throw-out as their entry to the sales, had bought one from a knacker's yard for peanuts; a bay with a white star, common as dirt."