Urban Dictionary: Octoroon

1.	Octoroon
	Human being of 1/8 african-american origin. Damn yo skin be mad light? How you blaque? I'm an octoroon. buy octoroon mugs & shirts by Bobby Gibson Nov 6, 2003 add a video
2.	octoroon
	a person having one-eighth black ancestry; the offspring of a quadroon and a white "All the way up until 1986, my barracoon played home to a coffle of twelve: 3 quadroons, 3 octoroons, 2 pickanninies, 2 Mexicans, a mulatto, a chink, and a roan-colored Albanian hobo named Noodles. And I'll be goddammned if those weren't the best days of my life." buy octoroon mugs & shirts octaroon quadroon pickaninny mulatto coffle barracoon by Ronald T. McMurtry Oct 11, 2006 add a video
3.	Octoroon
	Americans of mixed ancestry. Mixed European/African Americans who appear European. Many are considered Caucasian of European background, who are in fact of mixed European and African ancestry (albeit 2-3 generations past). Rarely mistaken for "Spanish". Whom are clearly mixed with Spanish/African/Indian "No one knew she was an Octoroon, Her Grandfather was half African". Joan Bennett, Constance Bennett, Fredi Washington. buy octoroon mugs & shirts mixed looks white white looking black ancestry white with black ancestry. by P.Vought Oct 5, 2007 add a video