Yellow-back

/jˈɛləʊbˈak/

/jˈɛloʊbˈæk/

Yellow-back

cheaply produced and often sensationalist paperback books with yellow covers, typically sold in railway stations and other public places

Examples

1. In Angola, the yellow-backed duiker’s taste for flesh is infamous.

2. I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a yellow-backed novel.