jalapeño
n.— «Jon was a “jalapeño”, half white (Hauli, the slang for “White” in Hawaii) half Filipino.» —“I see Ghosts in my house” by pax industria /dev/null May 23, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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