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English Wikipedia has an article on:high yellowWikipedia

Etymology

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After the golden yellow skin tone of some multiracial people.

Noun

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high yellow (plural high yellows)

  1. (sometimes racially offensive) A black person with light skin with yellow undertones.
    • 2014 January 10, Colorism: The Secret Shame (Oprah's Lifeclass), season 5, episode 2, via OWN:Being a light-skinned girl, you get called names. You get called 'lite-brite', you get called 'high yellow', 'redbone'.

Synonyms

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  • high yaller

Adjective

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high yellow (comparative more high yellow, superlative most high yellow)

  1. (of a black person) Having a light skin tone.
    • 2007 October 8, 12:23 from the start, in ...Or Die Trying (The Boondocks), season 2, episode 1, spoken by Granddad (John Witherspoon):Now, you gonna get your little narrow, high yellow ass back into the theater and enjoy Soul Plane 2.

See also

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  • colorism
  • redbone
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