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high-cheekboners

high-cheekboners is the plural of high-cheekboner.

Meaning of high-cheekboner

Noun

high-cheekboner (plural high-cheekboners)

  1. (US) Synonym of box checker (“someone who is counted in an organization as representing a minority ethnic group but who is so assimilated into the dominant culture that their ethnic status becomes meaningless”).
    • And according to NBC Universal, only 0.4 percent of its workforce identifies as Native—self-identified “Indians”—meaning anyone on staff can claim to be Native American by checking the box, including people known in Indian Country as “box-checkers” or “high-cheekboners.”[2024 September 25, Simon Moya-Smith, “A Native Movement Hopes to Get Out the Vote. But Some Native Americans Say, “No Thanks!””, in The Nation, retrieved 26 Sep 2025
    Synonyms:
    box checker

Questions about high-cheekboners

What is high-cheekboners the plural of?
High-cheekboners is the plural of high-cheekboner.

Words near high-cheekboners in the dictionary

  1. high-centre
  2. high-centred
  3. high-centres
  4. high-centring
  5. high-cheekboner
  6. high-cheekboners
  7. high-church
  8. high-class
  9. high-concept
  10. high-context culture
  11. high-context cultures

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