Usually means: Cheap, sensational 19th-century paperback novels.
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  1. yellowback: Merriam-Webster
  2. yellowback: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. yellowback: Collins English Dictionary
  4. yellowback: Wiktionary
  5. yellowback: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. yellowback: Dictionary.com
  7. The Yellowback, Yellowback: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. yellowback: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words

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  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

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  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

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▸ noun:  A cheap sensational novel.

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