yellowback
Americannoun
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(formerly) an inexpensive, often lurid, novel bound in yellow cloth or paper.
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a gold certificate.
Etymology
Origin of yellowback
Example Sentences
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You saw what that fellow flashed, a twenty dollar yellowback, a word to Skippy and the Kennedy would follow.
From Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World by Ernest Fuhr
When he opened the little rusty covered diary and those beautiful yellowback government gold notes fluttered to the ground there was a tense silence.
From The House Boat Boys by St. George Rathborne
Perhaps, to tell the truth, they had never before seen even one yellowback note, and hardly understood what they were.
From The House Boat Boys by St. George Rathborne
Why, he'd give this one or that one a yellowback to buy a new hat, say,—and then the others would tease for new hats.
From In the Onyx Lobby by Carolyn Wells
As he idly opened the book there was disclosed a little collection of genuine government yellowback bills, not one of which was less than ten dollars in its denomination.
From The House Boat Boys by St. George Rathborne
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