Definition of yellow

yellow

adjective

• cowardly.

  Last edited on Mar 12 2010. Submitted by Ivan from Croatia on Aug 01 2005.

• sensationalized, when used in the expression "yellow journalism."

  Last edited on Apr 07 2015. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Mar 12 2010.

noun

• a person of East Asian descent.

  Last edited on Mar 30 2015. Submitted by Chuck S. on Mar 30 2015.

• any of a number of drugs whose capsules / pills are yellow in color.

  Got any of them yellows?

  • See more words with the same meaning: drugs.

  Last edited on Apr 07 2015. Submitted by Chuck S. on Mar 30 2015.

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Slang terms with the same meaning

Other terms relating to 'drugs':
smack	Definitions include: offensive speech about another person.
hog leg	Definitions include: Term for an unusually large and fat marijuana cigarette.
pick-me-up	Definitions include: a stimulant.
tits	Definitions include: very good, excellent; "cool".
spliff	Definitions include: a marijuana cigarette; "joint".
candle	Definitions include: A marijuana cigarette, a joint.
key bump	Definitions include: a bump (small amount of a powdered drug) snorted off of a key.
la la	Definitions include: marijuana.
yayo	Definitions include: Crack-cocaine, or crank.
choke	Definitions include: to smoke marijuana.
jenkem	Definitions include: fermented human waste, inhaled for the (alleged) intoxicating effects.
hard stuff	Definitions include: hard drugs.
brown	Definitions include: black tar heroin.
boo	Definitions include: anything, in speech.
jelly baby	Definitions include: a pill of amphetamine.
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Slang terms with the same root words

Other terms relating to 'yellow':
baby sh*t yellow	Definitions include: offensive shade of yellow
grellow	Definitions include: a color between green and yellow.
grelow	Definitions include: misspelling of grellow.
mellow yellow	Definitions include: LSD (acid)
sh*t yellow	Definitions include: extremely upset, nervous or worried
yellow-belly	Definitions include: a coward.
yellow fever	Definitions include: attraction to Asian people.
yellow hammer	Definitions include: an inbred person.
yellow journalism	Definitions include: sensationalized journalism.

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