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mellow yellow

mellow yellow noun: a yellow police car used in South Africa.

Noun

mellow yellow (countable and uncountable, plural mellow yellows)

  1. (South Africa, countable, historical, slang) A yellow police car used in South Africa.
  2. (uncountable) Synonym of bananadine.
    • The smoking of dried scrapings from the inner portion of banana peel (bananadine or mellow yellow) has received the most national publicity.1970, Oliver Erasmus Byrd, Medical readings on drug abuse
    • The most embarrassing and ludicrous event seldom recalled in the professional literature is the story of "bananadine" or "mellow yellow," […]1983, Michael Myslobodsky, Hemisyndromes, psychobiology, neurology, psychiatry
    Synonyms:
    bananadine

Synonyms of mellow yellow

Forms of mellow yellow

pluralmellow yellows

Questions about mellow yellow

What does mellow yellow mean?
Mellow yellow means a yellow police car used in South Africa.
What part of speech is mellow yellow?
Mellow yellow is a noun.
What is the plural of mellow yellow?
The plural of mellow yellow is mellow yellows.

Words near mellow yellow in the dictionary

  1. mellow
  2. mellow bug
  3. mellow bugs
  4. mellow out
  5. mellow rock
  6. mellow yellow
  7. mellow yellows
  8. mellowcreme
  9. mellowcremes
  10. mellowed
  11. mellowed out

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