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1. • • yellowback noun 1 : gold certificate 2 : a cheap and usually sensational novel especially : one sold in yellow board or paper covers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
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   What does yellowback mean?

   • What a row was kicked up over Miss Braddon's "Octoroon," and what an impossible yellowback it was! Yellowback definition: (formerly) an inexpensive, often lurid, novel bound in yellow cloth or paper.. See examples of YELLOWBACK used in a sentence.

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   What is the meaning of yellow & back1?

   • [1790–1800; yellow + back1] This word is first recorded in the period 1790–1800. Other words that entered English at around the same time include: backhanded, cannibalism, gelatin, infiltration, standby 3 meanings: 1. a cheap, sensational novel bound in yellow fabric or paper 2. a U.S. dollar having a yellow coloured back 3. a....

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   What is a yellowback book?

   • (formerly) an inexpensive, often lurid, novel bound in yellow cloth or paper. a gold certificate. You saw what that fellow flashed, a twenty dollar yellowback, a word to Skippy and the Kennedy would follow. What a row was kicked up over Miss Braddon's "Octoroon," and what an impossible yellowback it was!

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   What is a yellow back fish?

   • The fisher-men having caught a quantity of large fish, I discovered one among them..the yellow-back …thus called from its colour, which almost resembles that of a lemon. The Yellow-back is often brought to market at Paramaribo, and attracts the attention of new comers, as this fish is of a saffron colour on the upper part, but the under is white.

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   What is a 20 dollar yellowback?

   • a gold certificate. You saw what that fellow flashed, a twenty dollar yellowback, a word to Skippy and the Kennedy would follow. What a row was kicked up over Miss Braddon's "Octoroon," and what an impossible yellowback it was! Yellowback definition: (formerly) an inexpensive, often lurid, novel bound in yellow cloth or paper..

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   What is a yellowback warbler?

   • The Yellow-back is often brought to market at Paramaribo, and attracts the attention of new comers, as this fish is of a saffron colour on the upper part, but the under is white. 2. U.S. (now rare). (In full blue yellowback warbler) the northern parula, Setophaga americana, which has blue-grey upperparts with a yellowish breast and back patch.

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   Yellowback definition: (formerly) an inexpensive, often lurid, novel bound in yellow cloth or paper.. See examples of YELLOWBACK used in a sentence.

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   yellowback in British English. (ˈjɛləʊˌbæk ) noun. 1. a cheap, sensational novel bound in yellow fabric or paper. 2. a U.S. dollar having a yellow coloured back. 3. a lemon coloured fish.

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   What does the noun yellowback mean? There are four meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun yellowback , one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

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   yellowback. (ˈjɛləʊˌbæk) n. 1. (Journalism & Publishing) a cheap, sensational novel bound in yellow fabric or paper. 2. (Currencies) a U.S. dollar having a yellow coloured back. 3. (Animals) a lemon coloured fish.

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   Definition of yellowback in the English dictionary The first definition of yellowback in the dictionary is a cheap, sensational novel bound in yellow fabric or paper. Other definition of yellowback is a U.S. dollar having a yellow coloured back.

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   yellowback. yel•low•back (yel′ ō bak′), n. Literature (formerly) an inexpensive, often lurid, novel bound in yellow cloth or paper. Business a gold certificate. No titles with the word (s) "yellowback". Visit the English Only Forum. Help WordReference: Ask in the forums yourself.