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mellow yellow en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (South-Africa, countable, historical, slang) A yellow police car used in South Africa.
  2. (uncountable) Synonym of bananadine.
    • 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:
    • 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:

Forms

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mellow yellows Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

hippo

Synonyms

bananadine