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yellow
adjective- cowardly, afraid US, 1856
- You act mighty yellow about this. — Chester Gould, Dick Tracy Meets the Night Crawler, p. 208, 1945
- “Stop being so yellow,” she said, “and tell these apes to pay me for my bag.” — Irving Shulman, The Amboy Dukes, p. 236, 1947
- Yellow? Afraid of trial by combat? — William Bernard, Jailbait, p. 89, 1949
- I think you’re yellow not because you didn’t kill him, but because you didn’t want to kill him. — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 191, 1967
- used to describe that section of the printed news media which tends towards the sensational, the unscrupulous and the tawdry US, 1898
Derives from an 1895 experiment by the New York World in the use of colour-printing with the intent to attract more readers; a cartoon of a young girl in a yellow dress known as “The Yellow Kid”. - [T]he Mirror, Sunday Mirror and the People–newspapers which, when it comes to yellow journalism, make the Daily Mail seem like a church gazette. — The Guardian, 10 June 1996
- [S]uddenly even the yellow press had terms like “groovy” and “with-it” turning up in its copy. — Jake Arnott, He Kills Coppers, p. 69, 2001
- light-skinned; of mixed race US, 1934
- It was easy to see that the ape who was sleeping with her or married to her wouldn’t be one to let a mere hundred and seventeen dollars stand in the way of something this yellow bitch had her heart set on. — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 33, 1960
- You just like most yellow nigger sissies. You don’t fuck nothing but paddies and half-white niggers. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Mama Black Widow, p. 32, 1969
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