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blactino
 n.— «Her performance is the catalyst for one of the many show-stopping scenes in Domino when she waxes poetic about mixed race vernacular such as “blactino” and “chinegro” on the “Jerry Springer Show.”» —“When Donnatella Met the Last Don” by Peter Schaus in Montclair State University The Montclarion (Upper Montclair, N.J.) Oct. 13, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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