Usually means: Obsolete term for gold coin.
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  1. yellow boy: Merriam-Webster
  2. yellow boy: Wordnik
  3. Yellow Boy, yellow boy: Wiktionary
  4. Yellow boy: Dictionary.com
  5. Yellow boy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. yellow-boy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  7. Yellow-boy, Yellow-boy: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  8. yellow boy: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Yellow boy: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Yellow Boy: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Yellow boy)

noun:  (firearms, informal) A Winchester Model 1866 lever action rifle.
noun:  (countable, slang, now archaic, historical) A gold coin; a guinea or sovereign.
noun:  (uncountable, slang) Iron(III) hydroxide, a yellow-orange solid found in acidic water from mining projects.
noun:  (countable, US, slang, historical) Synonym of goldback (“kind of gold certificate”)

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