"mellow yellow" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: mellow yellows [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} mellow yellow (countable and uncountable, plural mellow yellows)
  1. (South Africa, countable, slang, historical) A yellow police car used in South Africa. Tags: South-Africa, countable, historical, slang
    Sense id: en-mellow_yellow-en-noun-8xGykBNc Categories (other): South African English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 68 32 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 77 23 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 80 20
  2. (uncountable) Synonym of bananadine Tags: uncountable Synonyms: bananadine [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-mellow_yellow-en-noun-iejZ67A3 Categories (other): Fictional materials Disambiguation of Fictional materials: 18 82

Inflected forms

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