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Person of mixed ancestry, in Hawaii
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hapa
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n. (context Hawaii California English) A person of mixed ethnic heritage, especially half Asian/Pacific Islander and half white.
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Hapa is a term for a person of mixed ethnic heritage. The term originates in Hawaii from the Hawaiian Pidgin word for "half", "part", or "mixed". In Hawaii , the word refers to any person of mixed ethnic heritage, regardless of the specific mixture. In ...
Usage examples of hapa.
In fact, the only young person I ever saw him relate to was a distant relative, a hapa haole named Russell Tanner.
A short thickset man of vaguely oriental appearance, he was of that mixed Hawaiian and Caucasian ancestry that in his birthplace is called hapa haoli.