Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having yellow lines or streaks: as, the yellow-line quaker, Orthosia macilenta, a British noctuid moth.
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Examples
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On a fallen log are what look like fist-sized splats of yellow-line paint.
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The backstory, however, was that Grewal was relegated to the back of the peloton for a yellow-line violation just as the race split in the second stage.
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Back home, we discover it was a yellow-line quaker.
Country diary: New Forest Graham Long 2010
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Let me explain how my formative driving experience in the early nineties has transformed me into the rather be driven, public transportation, yellow-line hopping proud New Yorker I've become.
The Yellow Wonder 2009
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Let me explain how my formative driving experience in the early nineties has transformed me into the rather be driven, public transportation, yellow-line hopping proud New Yorker I've become.
The Yellow Wonder 2009
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The yellow-line rule has been in effect and enforced since NASCAR returned to Daytona in July 2001, nearly five months following the last-lap accident that killed Dale Earnhardt.
SI.com 2011
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With ARCA having a similar yellow-line rule as NASCAR, Patrick said she was just trying not to go below the yellow line.
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Johnson said Martin had an interested way to tweak the yellow-line rule NASCAR uses at Daytona and Talladega.
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By the end of the session she was inquiring about the specifics of the yellow-line rule that defines the lower border of the racing surface at Daytona and Talladega.
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With ARCA having a similar yellow-line rule as NASCAR, Patrick said she was just trying not to go below the yellow line.
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