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yellow cake

British  

noun

  1. informal semirefined uranium ore

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She’s already appeared in another film, “Yellow Cake,” premiering at the Berlin International Film Festival this month.

From Los Angeles Times

There was yellow cake, cut into cubes and mixed with jam and eaten with a spoon; it was superbly good.

From Literature

Cassiopeia uncurled, grabbed her feather duster, and joined the celebratory parade around the nursery as the children chanted the names of every kind of cake they could think of: “White cake, yellow cake, angel cake, Gypsy cake, Black Forest cake...”

From Literature

“Beautiful women unsettle and disrupt. This isn’t yellow cake uranium.”

From Los Angeles Times

This year we—minus two, with Mom working—had to settle for homemade yellow cake smothered in chocolate frosting.

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