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seen yellow

seen yellow is the past participle of see yellow.

Meaning of see yellow

Verb

see yellow (third-person singular simple present sees yellow, present participle seeing yellow, simple past saw yellow, past participle seen yellow)

  1. (idiomatic) To receive a yellow card.
    • Healy’s first act was to crudely wipe out Forrest on the touchline. He saw yellow when it could have been red.
      Lafferty then had his name taken for a late one on Adam Matthews.2011 December 29, Keith Jackson, “SPL: Celtic 1 Rangers 0”, in Daily Record

Questions about seen yellow

What is seen yellow the past participle of?
Seen yellow is the past participle of see yellow.

Words near seen yellow in the dictionary

  1. seen to
  2. seen to it
  3. seen what sticks
  4. seen which way the cat jumped
  5. seen with half an eye
  6. seen yellow
  7. Seend
  8. seene
  9. seenness
  10. seens
  11. seent

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