swirl
n.— «My kids are really swirls. Chau, from New York City, adopted the term after hearing it in discussions about being a person of mixed-race origin while she was an undergrad at Wellesley.» —“Have A Swirly Asian Pacific American Heritage Month” by Emil Guillermo SF Gate (San Francisco, California) May 4, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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