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," […]