lemon adj.1
1. of a black person, light-skinned.
![]() | 🎵 There’s a lemon colored lady, the coons call flat-foot Sadie. | ‘Honey, You’ve Got to Leave’|
![]() | 🎵 Ebenezer Johnson was a yaller coon. | ‘Let Me Be Your Lemon Coon’|
![]() | Home to Harlem 58: A lemon-colored or paper-brown pool-room youngster. | |
![]() | Blues Fell this Morning 80: To differentiate between their many shades of colour [...] ‘brightskin,’ ‘high yaller’, ‘lemon’. |
2. (US) useless, second-rate.
![]() | TAD Lex. (1993) 54: Lemon idea. | in Zwilling|
![]() | Keys to Crookdom 410: Lemon. Something worthless. |