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  • Lisa was what we black people call high-yellow, light-skinned, with short hair, broad shoulders, and broad hips.

    The Office girls Sylvester Stephens 2008

  • Lisa was what we black people call high-yellow, light-skinned, with short hair, broad shoulders, and broad hips.

    The Office girls Sylvester Stephens 2008

  • The conversation spins from current events — whether the Yankees and Royals are still battling for the pennant, something that probably hasn't happened since 1987 — to possible explanations for the sudden growth spurt of the palm trees outside his window “Haitian fertilizer!” to the horrible perfume stench currently emanating from the “high-yellow” nurse's sizable bosom.

    Monkeytown excerpt 2 Chris Vola 2011

  • A high-yellow girl with two long cornrows placed her tray on the table and sat beside Secret.

    Push Comes to Shove Oasis 2010

  • See, if Chris Brown was the second coming of Ike Turner, well I had no sympathy for his high-yellow ass.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Renee 2009

  • See, if Chris Brown was the second coming of Ike Turner, well I had no sympathy for his high-yellow ass.

    Baby Wipes Terrence Howard thinks Chris Brown Is A Great Guy Renee 2009

  • It's not enough to advance all the high-yellow nations in Latin America and the Caribbean beyond their "third world" developing status.

    "All That Yellow Wasted" Anxious Black Woman 2008

  • The hip-hop attire that he was wearing—a designer high-yellow Tommy Hilfiger hoody, baggy jeans, and Air Jordans—made homeboy look like a high school senior, although he was a thirty-two-year-old grown man.

    Street Judge 2008

  • The hip-hop attire that he was wearing—a designer high-yellow Tommy Hilfiger hoody, baggy jeans, and Air Jordans—made homeboy look like a high school senior, although he was a thirty-two-year-old grown man.

    Street Judge 2008

  • The hip-hop attire that he was wearing—a designer high-yellow Tommy Hilfiger hoody, baggy jeans, and Air Jordans—made homeboy look like a high school senior, although he was a thirty-two-year-old grown man.

    Street Judge 2008

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