(n.) The offspring of a mulatto woman and a negro; also, a mulatto.
Example Sentences:
(1) Griff is giggling so much he has to stand in the corner of the studio, hunched over in hysteria. '
(2) One afternoon sometime earlier, Chuck D and Professor Griff are being driven through London.
(3) The campaigners, who also include sculptor Sir Anish Kapoor , Restoration presenter Griff Rhys Jones, Charles Saumarez Smith, chief executive of the Royal Academy, and Lord Baker, the former Tory home secretary, pledge to fight what they describe as a fundamental and damaging transformation of London.
(4) Professor Griff is a rapper from the political hip hop group Public Enemy.
(5) Police described the shooter as a “loner” and, bizarrely, pointed out out that he had shown an appreciation of the rapper Professor Griff, a founding member of the hip hop group Public Enemy, and an outspoken proponent of Afrocentrism, on Facebook.
(6) Griff is writing an expose on 'global white supremacy and all of its attributes'.
(7) Having spent the morning at MTV and scoring free trainers from Adidas, Chuck and Griff are on their way to E4, to record a show in which they'll choose their favourite videos.
(8) Less welcome was Professor Griff's 1989 interview with the Washington Times where he condemned Jews as responsible for 'the majority of the wickedness that goes on across the globe'.
(9) Griff also expanded the group's parameters, calling himself Minister of Information, the title Eldridge Cleaver held in the Black Panthers.
(10) Griff Rhys Jones claims he will be “hit hard” by a mansion tax and could leave the country if one is introduced ( Report, 4 November ).
(11) His neighbours included future bandmates Professor Griff, Hank Shocklee and Bill Stephney, as well as Eddie Murphy.
(12) Chuck tried to defuse the crisis without throwing Griff (who apologised too late) under the bus but his compromise solution ended up pleasing nobody.
(13) Public Enemy was meant to be a lively democracy, with Chuck mediating between the goofy, anarchic Flavor Flav and the stern, ultra-militant “Minister of Information” Professor Griff, but that didn’t pan out.
(14) A pass to Griff Whalen is good for 22 yards, which takes them to New England's 38.
(15) Griff Fender, best known as a vocalist for the 70s band The Darts, and dancer Laura Street have worked with Oily Cart for many years.
(16) At the risk of "Professor Griff'n myself", he says, referring to the dementedly Afrocentric Public Enemy member, he's currently working on "teaching young black working-class kids about agency; awareness of the palette open to them.
(17) At its most basic level, pixação is about vanity, fame and self-promotion, which is why the vast majority of pixos are either personal monikers or the names of particular griffes (collectives).
(18) He doesn’t publicly criticise Griff for giving paranoid lectures about the Illuminati, just like he didn’t knock Flav for becoming a clownish reality TV star.
(19) Police referenced Johnson’s Facebook account in its statement: The suspect’s Facebook account included the following names and information: Fahed Hassen, Richard GRIFFIN aka Professor Griff, GRIFFIN embraces a radical form of Afrocentrism, and GRIFFIN wrote a book A Warriors Tapestry.
(20) Solar farms have proven controversial in some individual cases, with a councillor in Devon likening them to concentration camps and comedian Griff Rhys Jones fighting a high-profile campaign against one outside Ipswich , but government polling shows it is one of the most popular energy technologies, with around 80% public support.
Offspring
Definition:
(n.sing. & pl.) That which is produced; a child or children; a descendant or descendants, however remote from the stock.
(n.sing. & pl.) The act of production; generation.
(n.sing. & pl.) Origin; lineage; family.
Example Sentences:
(1) No reversions to wild-type levels were observed in 555 heterozygous offspring of crosses between homozygous Campines and normals.
(2) In neither case has a significant elevation in inherited genetic effects or cancer been detected in the offspring of exposed individuals.
(3) For that reason we determine basal serum pepsinogen I (PG I) levels in 25 ulcerous patients and 75% of their offspring and to a control group matched by age and sex.
(4) The analgesic activity of morphine was assessed by the hot-plate technique in the offspring of female CFE rats that had received morphine twice daily on days 5 to 12 of pregnancy.
(5) The mothers of 87 male and female adolescents accepted at a counseling agency described their offspring by completing the Institute of Juvenile Research Behavior Checklist.
(6) Neither light nor electron microscopy revealed significant morphologic alterations in the cochlear elements of the exposed offspring.
(7) The relationships of birth weight and maternal diabetes to the development of obesity were examined at 5-19 yr of age in the offspring of Pima Indian women.
(8) The data of first 1000 first-born, non-malformed, mature (greater than or equal to 2500 g) offspring of participants in the Hungarian "Optimal" Family Planning Programme were evaluated.
(9) Subcutaneous polymorphic sarcomas were induced in 8 out 27 offspring of syrian golden Hamsters after treatment of pregnant mother animals at day 15 of gestation with Adenovirus 12.
(10) Here we show that the subsequent survival and reproductive success of subordinate female red deer is depressed more by rearing sons than by rearing daughters, whereas the subsequent fitness of dominant females is unaffected by the sex of their present offspring.
(11) The residual values were positively correlated in parent-offspring pairs and among sibs, both those presumed to be living together and those presumed to be living apart.
(12) The five offspring are ancestors of all known carriers.
(13) We have studied the effect of ampicillin and cloxacillin treatment of mice in the final week of pregnancy on the development of the lymphatic system of their offsprings.
(14) It was caused at the frequency close to 100% in dysgenic offsprings reared above 25 degrees C, of which gonads were morphologically clearly different from those of usual GD sterility, whereas there was no indication of GD-3 sterility at temperatures below 24 degrees C. Temperature sensitive period of GD-3 sterility was estimated to the prepupal stage by shift-down experiment.
(15) The effects of repeated N2O exposures were investigated for offspring of mice exposed to air or N2O (5%, 15%, or 35%) for 4 hours per day on days 6 through 15 of pregnancy.
(16) Whether normal individuals with such a duplication carry increased risk of having offspring with an obesity syndrome is yet to be determined.
(17) Offspring of marmosets reached adult values of 14CO2 exhalation at 8 days postnatally when using [14CO2]-methacetin as substrate and at 30 days postnatally using [14C2H5]-phenacetin in the breath test.
(18) The sample consisted of 102 Japanese families, each including both parents and one of their offspring, and on average all subjects had relatively well-aligned permanent dentitions.
(19) At Day 56, serum IgM concentrations were significantly lower in the low zinc offspring.
(20) Such conditions may influence the personality of offspring of deaf-mute people.