yellows
noun
Meaning
- The colour of gold, butter, or a lemon; the colour obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting blue from white light.
- The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, the illumination of which indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so.
- One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.
- (pocket billiards) One of two groups of object balls, or a ball from that group, as used in the principally British version of pool that makes use of unnumbered balls (the (yellow(s) and red(s)); contrast stripes and solids in the originally American version with numbered balls).
- A yellow card.
- Any of various pierid butterflies of the subfamily Coliadinae, especially the yellow coloured species. Compare sulphur.
- To become yellow or more yellow.
- To make (something) yellow or more yellow.
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