Wiktionary
yellowback
n. cheap sensational novel
Usage examples of "yellowback".
We found him sitting on a camel bag in the shade at the front of the house reading a yellowback novel, a glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other.
Operation Yellowback, the campaign to reunite the loyal segments of the Federation.
There was also a man carrying a large round stone on his bare yellowback, and a fat man who was whipping the man with a black whip, and a tattered boy eating a potato, and a grand lady in silks and laces who was riding a white horse and whistling an awful waltz on twelve apricot pits.