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yellow bird n. For another, ward leaders have been known to take street money from candidates, promise support and then not deliver. There is a name for this, too. These ward leaders are called “yellow birds,” after the old airline commercial that touted vacation flights to Florida. They take your money and metaphorically (and sometimes literally) head south. [English Money & Finance Politics Jargon] [full cite] (Apr. 22, 2008)

yellow boy n. The mine drainage sediment—commonly called “yellow boy”—is, essentially, iron hydroxide, or rust. The problem is that the pollutant oozes out of mine areas, contaminating waterways and shutting down most aquatic life. [English Environment] [full cite] (Sep. 22, 2007)

yellow bus n. It’s different. It has more meaning because it’s coming out of the Bay Area, where we all come from. Plus, the beats and style are a lot different from anything else I’ve heard. It brings about new words, like “goin’ dumb’”yellow bus” and “yaddaskeeton.” Anything crazy—that’s what hyphy’s all about. [English Hip-Hop Slang] [full cite] (Aug. 16, 2006)

yellow dog n. They are safer, larger and more advanced in every way than the widely held image of what are commonly called “Yellow Dogs,” the brightly painted, drafty and rattling, but reliable, buses of an earlier era. [English Automobiles & Transportation] [full cite] (Jul. 18, 2005)

yellow dragon disease n. A plant condition from China known as yellow dragon disease or citrus greening has been found in southeast Florida and appears to be spreading. [ Language English] [full cite] (Oct. 14, 2005)

yellow flash n. A Purdue University agronomist said that many farmers over the last several years have observed a mid-season yellowing of their soybeans, commonly called “yellow flash,” which is caused by a manganese deficiency. [English Agriculture Plant-life] [full cite] (Apr. 22, 2009)

yellow generation n. ters. In China. The place with the fastest-growing economy in the world. Do you think they give a rip about trade imbalance? Do you think these kids who call themselves the “yellow generation” look up to America? [ Place China] [full cite] (Dec. 3, 2005)

yellow vulture n. Time-distance ticketing systems use multiple cameras spaced far apart on a freeway. Each car is photographed once as it enters the first section of road. Miles later a second photograph is taken that allows the vehicle’s average speed to be calculated from the time it took to travel between the two locations. In use in Britain under the trade name SPECS, these cameras are commonly referred to as “yellow vultures” and are among the most lucrative in the country. [English United Kingdom Automobiles & Transportation Slang] [full cite] (Jun. 11, 2007)

yellow-star cluster n. Starting with the upcoming 2009 budget, the Air Force will need at least $20 billion more every year to meet its modernization needs, he said. “I think this is really a yellow-star cluster,” Wynne said, describing the military term for sending a personnel-in-distress signal. “We’ve done what we can do, and we need help.” [English Military] [full cite] (Sep. 27, 2007)

yellowtail n. The names the men and women are known by colloquially belie the true nature of the transaction, some research suggests: It’s sex for hire, where black men’s flesh is tied—at least temporarily—to white women’s pursestrings.…The tourist women get nicknames, too. British ones go by “Shirley Valentine” (from the 1989 hit movie of the same name, about a Liverpool housewife finding liberation in Greece). In Bermuda, they’re “longtails” or “yellowtails.” [English Dominican Republic Sex & Sexuality] [full cite] (Jan. 10, 2007)

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