Usually means: Fear of East Asian threat.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word yellow peril:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. yellow peril: Merriam-Webster
  2. the yellow peril: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. yellow peril: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. yellow peril: Collins English Dictionary
  5. yellow peril: Vocabulary.com
  6. yellow peril: Wiktionary
  7. yellow peril: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Yellow Peril: Dictionary.com
  9. The Yellow Peril, Yellow Peril (disambiguation), Yellow Peril (novel), Yellow Peril, Yellow peril: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. yellow peril: Rhymezone
  11. yellow peril: FreeDictionary.org
  12. yellow peril: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. yellow peril: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. yellow peril: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. yellow peril: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See yellow_perils as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Yellow Peril)

noun:  (derogatory, racially offensive, sometimes capitalized) The alleged threat to Western nations by East Asians, especially Chinese or Japanese people, due to their vast population, non-Western cultures, or supposed antagonism to the West.
noun:  (derogatory, racially offensive, sometimes capitalized) East Asian nations or peoples, conceived as threatening.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of yellow peril [(derogatory, racially offensive, sometimes capitalized) The alleged threat to Western nations by East Asians, especially Chinese or Japanese people, due to their vast population, non-Western cultures, or supposed antagonism to the West.]

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