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Two different things walk into a gene pool and refuse to pick a side.
means Something made by combining two different things — species, cultures, cars, words — into one offspring that carries traits of both parents.
from From Latin 'hybrida' (also spelled 'ibrida'), meaning the offspring of a tame sow and a wild boar — Romans used it for crossbred animals, and possibly for the mixed-parentage children of Roman and foreign unions. It entered English in the 1600s still smelling of the barnyard before biology and tech broadened it to genes, cars, and words.
- mules
- Classic hybrid, horse plus donkey, usually sterile
- cars
- Toyota Prius popularized the term for engines in 1997
- work
- Office-home split only became hybrid slang post-2020
- plants
- Most supermarket corn is a deliberately bred hybrid