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▸ adjective: (informal) Lacking courage.
▸ adjective: (publishing, journalism) Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.
▸ adjective: (chiefly derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur, of the skin) Of a hue attributed to Far East Asians, especially the Chinese.
▸ adjective: (chiefly derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Far East Asian (relating to Asian people).
▸ adjective: (dated, Australia, offensive) Of mixed Aboriginal and Caucasian ancestry.
▸ adjective: (dated, US) Synonym of high yellow
▸ adjective: (UK politics) Related to the Liberal Democrats.
▸ adjective: (politics) Related to the Free Democratic Party; a political party in Germany.
▸ noun: The colour of sunflower petals and lemons; the colour obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting blue from white light.
▸ noun: (US) The mid light in a set of three traffic lights, the lighting of which indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so.
▸ noun: (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.
▸ noun: (pocket billiards) One of two groups of object balls, or a ball from that group, as used in the principally British version of pool that makes use of unnumbered balls (the (yellow(s) and red(s)); contrast stripes and solids in the originally American version with numbered balls).
▸ noun: (sports) A yellow card.
▸ noun: Any of various pierid butterflies of the subfamily Coliadinae, especially the yellow coloured species. Compare sulphur.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To become yellow or more yellow.
▸ verb: (transitive) To make (something) yellow or more yellow.
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yellow-bellied,
chicken,
colored,
yellowness,
jaundiced,
chromatic,
fearful,
scandalmongering,
old,
sensational,
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