D defs.my
Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Hyphenated American

· IPA
01 An American who is referred to by a hyphenated term with the first word indicating an origin in a foreign country, and the second term bein…
  1. 1.
    An American who is referred to by a hyphenated term with the first word indicating an origin in a foreign country, and the second term being “American”, as Irish-American, Italian-American, African-American, Asian-American.