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yellow boy

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Yellow Boy (plural Yellow Boys)

(firearms, informal) A Winchester Model 1866 lever action rifle.

(countable, slang, now archaic, historical) A gold coin; a guinea or sovereign. [from 17th c.]

(uncountable, slang) Iron(III) hydroxide, a yellow-orange solid found in acidic water from mining projects.

(countable, US, slang, historical) Synonym of goldback (“kind of gold certificate”)

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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