underbreed en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From under- + breed.
Meanings
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An inferior or subservient breed of people or sentient beings.
Leaf felt degraded by that — hiring on, in effect, as an indentured underbreed — but what choice was there for him?
1973, Terry Carr, Richard A. Lupoff, Robert Silverberg, No Mind of Man: Three Original Novellas of Science Fiction, page 122:I had an idea who it was but called the command post and demanded the names of the underbreeds who had last piloted the jet
1995, Alan Cockrell, Tail of the Storm: Flying Missions in the First Gulf War, →ISBN, page 49:Hi is thinking about those strange advertisements they read in the tabloid to titillate themselves, and the present in which he exists seems suddenly like some weird science fiction movie of the future in which the world is organized in a strange manner with certain people as an underbreed in which they are manipulated by economics to sell their bodies to others who live in another sphere where the repression of their carnality is required as an imagined requisite for social order.
2013, Thomas E. Kennedy, Kerrigan in Copenhagen, →ISBN, page 119:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| underbreeds | Number=Plur | lexicographic |