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Used as an insulting term torwards anybody with light skin in Hawaii. It has remained as an insult towards white people even since the culture of the islands has been absorbed by the "hip-hop" culture. I'm personally surprised that all of the locals haven't broken down and started calling us crackers yet.
What, you fuckin haole like some cracks?
Haole by DCYB March 8, 2004
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Someone who has not seen "Raps Hawaii" and therefore cannot possibly be considered a local to Hawaii. Typically fair-skinned foreigners.
"Brah, the beach stay packed with Haoles."
haole by EnemyBoss April 6, 2017
This is used in hawaii to mean someone of caucasian ethnicity. It was first used to describe Capt. Cook and his men. It origianaly means without breath, because they were so pale (don't ask). It is now used in hawaii as a fact or an insult. Mostly an insult. Oh, it is only used on people with white skin.
You stupid haole!
haole by Kaimana July 1, 2004
usually if one hawaiian says it means white, anyone else still means tourist or white
Kimo: Eh, you when see dat haole
Nani: Stupid haole, took our land

Run if you hear this: i gone knock dat haole out after school
good: what a haole= dumb blond

He Hawai`i mau a mau. `A`ole kekahi Haole mau a mau.
I am Hawaiian forever. Not one white forever
haole by damalama September 26, 2007
When the Hawaiian's saw the Whites (I'm Hapa Haole - mixed Asian + White) they thought they were ghosts or some odd being. The Whites didn't greet in the close up manner that the Hawaiian's did, wore big clunky clothes, and well were White. So it means ghost person, foreigner, or White. HOW it's used determines weather it's nasty or just fact.
haole by kenji September 23, 2003
-noun (pronounced "howlie")
Used by native Hawaiians to refer to white folks. Means "round-eye".
"Hey haole!"
haole by saggy sammy August 3, 2008
White people that come to hawaii

White tourists
Haole by T$kywalker June 15, 2018