mellow yellow

English

Noun

mellow yellow (countable and uncountable, plural mellow yellows)

  1. (South Africa, countable, slang, historical) A yellow police car used in South Africa.
    Coordinate term: hippo
  2. (uncountable) Synonym of bananadine
    • 1970, Oliver Erasmus Byrd, Medical readings on drug abuse:
      The smoking of dried scrapings from the inner portion of banana peel (bananadine or mellow yellow) has received the most national publicity.
    • 1983, Michael Myslobodsky, Hemisyndromes, psychobiology, neurology, psychiatry:
      The most embarrassing and ludicrous event seldom recalled in the professional literature is the story of "bananadine" or "mellow yellow," […]
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