Definition of: half-breed

(haf′brēd′, häf′-) noun
1. One having parents of different blood or ethnic stock: a Canadian half–breed.
2. One having a white father and an American Indian mother.
3. An adherent of President Garfield in the factional struggles of 1881 within the Republican party. See STALWART.
—adjective Half of one breed and half of another; coming of mixed ethnic or racial stock: also half′–bred′ (-bred′).