mellow yellow
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Noun
mellow yellow (countable and uncountable, plural mellow yellows)
- (South Africa, countable, slang, historical) A yellow police car used in South Africa.
- Coordinate term: hippo
- (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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