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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, sometimes
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
In use since the last decade of the 19th century.
