high-brown adj.
(US) mixed-race.
🎵 If I catch you out with your high-brown baby, / I’ll smack you down, and I don’t mean maybe! | ‘Aggravatin’ Papa’||
Law Rides the Range 203: Take it easy, you high brown cake-walker, or I’ll send you up to nigger heaven. | ||
Walk on the Wild Side 181: Warren Gamaliel was actually closer to being high-brown. | ||
When Me Was A Boy 43: In them days Rae Town was a high class residential area. Mostly British and high colour Jamaican did live down there. | ||
Where Dead Voices Gather (ms.) 195: Its metaphors were purely American and still of the moment: the Sheik of Alabam’ made those ‘high-brown babies’ howl. |