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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having a hyphen.
  • adjective Often Offensive Of or relating to naturalized citizens or their descendants or culture.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective United by hyphens; hyphened.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of hyphenate.
  • adjective Written with a hyphen.
  • adjective Of a person, considered to have more than one nationality or ethnicity (such as French-Canadian, Afro-Argentine, etc.).

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Examples

  • It is only when self-serving bottom-line profit-margin hyphenated-a$$holes attempt to extract their pound of flesh that we end up "needing" social communities.

    Just another FaceBook in the crowd (2) William "Papa" Meloney 2007

  • Since Heidegger often writes the word hyphenated, An-wesen, that means that it is to be understood in its root meaning.

    enowning enowning 2008

  • Since Heidegger often writes the word hyphenated, An-wesen, that means that it is to be understood in its root meaning.

    Archive 2008-01-01 enowning 2008

  • Although in theory, since a 'na does swear absolute obedience and perfect fidelity, there is no need to acknowledge even the greatest of such service, the Sandemans are realists; if a' na gives greater service or does a deed more heroic than may be reasonably expected, his thakur will have the tattoo circled and allow his 'na to use his name hyphenated with the' na's own.

    Concordance A Terran Empire concordance Ann Wilson

  • Segall asked Johnson about poems O'Ryan allegedly wrote about the athlete, some of which had her name hyphenated with O'Ryan's.

    CITIZEN-TIMES.com - News 2010

  • Yet she keeps her name hyphenated to her ex's name.

    Thestar.com - Home Page Ellie 2010

  • Yet she keeps her name hyphenated to her ex's name.

    Thestar.com - Home Page Ellie 2010

  • Some of the final plot turns strain credulity, and Flynn has a thing for coining hyphenated words.

    VinceKeenan.com 2009

  • Since you started the whole stereo-typing thing is that word hyphenated?

    Why We Need More Male Cake Decorators Jen 2008

  • He also refers to Obama by a two-word hyphenated term beginning with the word "Mother."

    CNN Transcript Dec 11, 2008 2008

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