octoroon or octaroon /ok-tə-roonˈ/ (old)

1. The offspring of a quadroon and a person of European descent
2. Someone who has one-eighth black blood

• take someone up on
• take steps
• take stock
• take stock in
• take stock of
• take strike
• take ten
• take the air
• take the bad with the good
• take the biscuit
• take the bit in one's teeth
• take the bread out of someone's mouth
• take the bull by the horns
• take the cake
• take the chair
• take the chill off
• take the consequences
• take the edge off
• take the field
• take the Fifth
• take the floor
• take the gilt off the gingerbread
• take the heat out of
• take their course
• take the king's shilling