Usually means: Light skin tone among African-Americans.
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General (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. high yellow: Merriam-Webster
  2. high yellow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. high yellow: Collins English Dictionary
  4. high yellow: Wiktionary
  5. high yellow: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. high-yellow, high yellow: Dictionary.com
  7. High Yellow, High yellow: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. High Yellow (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. high yellow: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. High Yellow: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (high yellow)

▸ noun:  A black person with light skin with yellow undertones.
▸ adjective:  (of a black person) Having a light skin tone.

Similar:
yellow bone, white, darkskin, brownskin, melanoderm, black man, black woman, Blackman, fullblood, black, more...

Opposite:
low yellow, pale, light, pastel

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Similar:
yellow bone, white, darkskin, brownskin, melanoderm, black man, black woman, Blackman, fullblood, black, more...

Opposite:
low yellow, pale, light, pastel



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